title: Tracker: continuous HMMER and BLAST searching.
abstract: 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/.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA.
authors.forename: Madelaine
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Marchin
authors.forename: Paul T
authors.initials: PT
authors.lastname: Kelly
authors.forename: Jianwen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fang
mesh_terms: 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