Claesson Marcus J, van Sinderen Douwe
Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre and Department of Microbiology, National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland.
Bioinformatics. 2005 Sep 15;21(18):3667-8. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bti598. Epub 2005 Jul 26.
Searches of translated, unannotated genomic DNA sequences against protein databases is a useful early-stage method for discovering protein homologues encoded by the sequence, but generates huge amounts of output data that quickly become impregnable. BlastXtract is a web-based tool for managing and visualizing results from large translated BLAST and FastA searches. It combines the speed and storage benefits of relational database management systems with an easy-to-use graphical navigation map, and greatly facilitates the early exploration of genomic sequence.
BlastXtract can be downloaded from http://bioinfo.ucc.ie/blastxtract/.
针对蛋白质数据库搜索已翻译的、未注释的基因组DNA序列，是发现该序列所编码蛋白质同源物的一种有用的早期方法，但会产生大量输出数据，很快就变得难以处理。BlastXtract是一个基于网络的工具，用于管理和可视化大型翻译后的BLAST和FastA搜索结果。它将关系数据库管理系统的速度和存储优势与易于使用的图形导航地图相结合，极大地促进了对基因组序列的早期探索。
BlastXtract可从http://bioinfo.ucc.ie/blastxtract/下载。
