title: secureBLAST.
abstract: secureBLAST supplements NCBI wwwblast with features necessary to control in an easy manageable way usage of BLAST data sets and their update. The concept we implemented allows to offer on a single BLAST server several data sets with individually configurable access rights. Security is provided by user authentication and encryption of the http traffic via SSL. By using secureBLAST, the administration of users and databases can be done via a web interface. Therefore, secureBLAST is valuable for institutions that have to restrict access to their datasets or just want to administer BLAST servers via a web interface.
authors.affiliation: Goettingen Genomics Laboratory, Institut fuer Mikrobiologie and Genetik, Grisebachstrasse 8, D-37077 Goettingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Arnim
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wiezer
authors.forename: Rainer
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Merkl
mesh_terms: D016494:Computer Security; D003628:Database Management Systems; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface