BLAST output visualization in the new sequencing era

Briefings in Bioinformatics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 484-503

  Neumann, Ralf Stefan ^a   Kumar, Surendra ^a   Shalchian Tabrizi, Kamran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

BLAST; High throughput; Post processing; Sequencing; User friendliness; Visualization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84904730058     PISSN: 14675463     EISSN: 14774054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbt009     Document Type: Article

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