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Batch Blast Extractor: An Automated Blastx Parser Application, Mehdi Pirooznia, Edward J. Perkins, Youping Deng
Batch Blast Extractor: An Automated Blastx Parser Application, Mehdi Pirooznia, Edward J. Perkins, Youping Deng
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Motivation
BLAST programs are very efficient in finding similarities for sequences. However for large datasets such as ESTs, manual extraction of the information from the batch BLAST output is needed. This can be time consuming, insufficient, and inaccurate. Therefore implementation of a parser application would be extremely useful in extracting information from BLAST outputs.
Results
We have developed a java application, Batch Blast Extractor, with a user friendly graphical interface to extract information from BLAST output. The application generates a tab delimited text file that can be easily imported into any statistical package such as Excel or SPSS for further …