Johnson Mark, Zaretskaya Irena, Raytselis Yan, Merezhuk Yuri, McGinnis Scott, Madden Thomas L
National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Building 38A, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2008 Jul 1;36(Web Server issue):W5-9. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkn201. Epub 2008 Apr 24.
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.
基本局部比对搜索工具（BLAST）是一个序列相似性搜索程序。美国国立医学图书馆国家生物技术信息中心（NCBI）网站上BLAST的公共界面http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast最近进行了重新设计，以提高可用性和性能。主要的新功能包括简化的搜索表单、改进的导航、最近BLAST结果列表、保存的搜索策略以及一个文档目录。在这里，我们描述了BLAST网络应用程序的新功能，解释了设计决策，并概述了未来改进计划。
