NCBI BLAST: a better web interface.
Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) is a sequence similarity search program. The public interface of BLAST, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast, at the NCBI website has recently been reengineered to improve usability and performance. Key new features include simplified search forms, improved navigation, a list of recent BLAST results, saved search strategies and a documentation directory. Here, we describe the BLAST web application's new features, explain design decisions and outline plans for future improvement.
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National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Building 38A, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA.
Zaretskaya
Irena
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Raytselis
Yan
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Merezhuk
Yuri
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McGinnis
Scott
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Madden
Thomas L
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D030541:Databases, Genetic; D020407:Internet; D009317:National Library of Medicine (U.S.); D016415:Sequence Alignment; D012984:Software; D014481:United States; D014584:User-Computer Interface