title: BLAST: a more efficient report with usability improvements.
abstract: The Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) website at the National Center for Biotechnology (NCBI) is an important resource for searching and aligning sequences. A new BLAST report allows faster loading of alignments, adds navigation aids, allows easy downloading of subject sequences and reports and has improved usability. Here, we describe these improvements to the BLAST report, discuss design decisions, describe other improvements to the search page and database documentation and outline plans for future development. The NCBI BLAST URL is http://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.
authors.affiliation: National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Building 45, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA.
authors.forename: Grzegorz M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Boratyn
authors.forename: Christiam
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Camacho
authors.forename: Peter S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Cooper
authors.forename: George
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Coulouris
authors.forename: Amelia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fong
authors.forename: Ning
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.forename: Thomas L
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Madden
authors.forename: Wayne T
authors.initials: WT
authors.lastname: Matten
authors.forename: Scott D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: McGinnis
authors.forename: Yuri
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Merezhuk
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Raytselis
authors.forename: Eric W
authors.initials: EW
authors.lastname: Sayers
authors.forename: Tao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tao
authors.forename: Jian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ye
authors.forename: Irena
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Zaretskaya
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D023281:Genomics; D020407:Internet; D050544:L-Gulonolactone Oxidase / Q000235:genetics; D051381:Rats; D016415:Sequence Alignment / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software
chemical_list: D050544:L-Gulonolactone Oxidase