title: prfectBLAST: a platform-independent portable front end for the command terminal BLAST+ stand-alone suite.
abstract: prfectBLAST is a multiplatform graphical user interface (GUI) for the stand-alone BLAST+ suite of applications. It allows researchers to do nucleotide or amino acid sequence similarity searches against public (or user-customized) databases that are locally stored. It does not require any dependencies or installation and can be used from a portable flash drive. prfectBLAST is implemented in Java version 6 (SUN) and runs on all platforms that support Java and for which National Center for Biotechnology Information has made available stand-alone BLAST executables, including MS Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. It is free and open source software, made available under the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3) and can be downloaded at www.cicy.mx/sitios/jramirez or http://code.google.com/p/prfectblast/.
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Biotecnologia, Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán, AC, Merida, Mexico.
authors.forename: Perfecto
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Santiago-Sotelo
authors.forename: Jorge Humberto
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Ramirez-Prado
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003628:Database Management Systems; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D020407:Internet; D016415:Sequence Alignment / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface