Tracker: continuous HMMER and BLAST searching.
CONCLUSIONS
Tracker is a web-based email alert system for monitoring protein database searches using HMMER and Blast-P, nucleotide searches using Blast-N and literature searches of the PubMed database. Users submit searches via a web-based interface. Searches are saved and run against updated databases to alert users about new information. If there are new results from the saved searches, users will be notified by email and will then be able to access results and link to additional information on the NCBI website. Tracker supports Boolean AND/OR operations on HMMER and BLASTP result sets to allow users to broaden or narrow protein searches.


BACKGROUND
The server is located at http://jay.bioinformatics.ku.edu/tracker/index.html. A distribution package including detailed installation procedure is freely available from http://jay.bioinformatics.ku.edu/download/tracker/.
Marchin
Madelaine
M
Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA.
Kelly
Paul T
PT
Fang
Jianwen
J
D003628:Database Management Systems; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D004282:Documentation / Q000379:methods; D034742:Electronic Mail; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D039781:PubMed; D016415:Sequence Alignment / Q000379:methods; D017421:Sequence Analysis / Q000379:methods*; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled