Semantic thumbnails: a novel method for summarizing document collections
Proceedings of the 22nd annual international conference on Design of communication: The engineering of quality documentation
Comparison of Current BLAST Software on Nucleotide Sequences
IPDPS '05 Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'05) - Workshop 7 - Volume 08
Single pass streaming BLAST on FPGAs
Parallel Computing
Ab-origin: An Improved Tool of Heavy Chain Rearrangement Analysis for Human Immunoglobulin
ICCS '07 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Computational Science, Part II
Operon Prediction in Bacterial Genomes
BSB '08 Proceedings of the 3rd Brazilian symposium on Bioinformatics: Advances in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Clustering Metagenome Short Reads Using Weighted Proteins
EvoBIO '09 Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics
Probabilistic Methods for Bioinformatics: with an Introduction to Bayesian Networks
Probabilistic Methods for Bioinformatics: with an Introduction to Bayesian Networks
Evidence-Based Clustering of Reads and Taxonomic Analysis of Metagenomic Data
PRIB '09 Proceedings of the 4th IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics
An adaptive multi-policy grid service for biological sequence comparison
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
BLAST application on the GPE/UnicoreGS grid
Euro-Par'06 Proceedings of the CoreGRID 2006, UNICORE Summit 2006, Petascale Computational Biology and Bioinformatics conference on Parallel processing
Fast and accurate NCBI BLASTP: acceleration with multiphase FPGA-based prefiltering
Proceedings of the 24th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing
Rapid sequence homology assessment by subsampling the genome space using difference sets
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory - Special issue on information theory in molecular biology and neuroscience
A mltiple task allocation frame work for biological seqence comparision in a grid environment
IPDPS'06 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Parallel and distributed processing
Efficiently querying protein sequences with the proteinus index
BSB'11 Proceedings of the 6th Brazilian conference on Advances in bioinformatics and computational biology
Sequence alignment as a database technology challenge
DEXA'07 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
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Sequence similarity is a powerful tool for discovering biological function. Just as the ancient Greeks used comparative anatomy to understand the human body and linguists used the Rosetta stone to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs, today we can use comparative sequence analysis to understand genomes. BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool), is a sophisticated software package for rapid searching of nucleotide and protein databases. It is one of the most important software packages used in sequence analysis and bioinformatics. Most users of BLAST, however, seldom move beyond the program's default parameters, and never take advantage of its full power. BLAST is the only book completely devoted to this popular suite of tools. It offers biologists, computational biology students, and bioinformatics professionals a clear understanding of BLAST as well as the science it supports. This book shows you how to move beyond the default parameters, get specific answers using BLAST, and how to interpret your results. The book also contains tutorial and reference sections covering NCBI-BLAST and WU-BLAST, background material to help you understand the statistics behind BLAST, Perl scripts to help you prepare your data and analyze your results, and a wealth of tips and tricks for configuring BLAST to meet your own research needs. Some of the topics covered include: BLAST basics and the NCBI web interfaceHow to select appropriate search parametersBLAST programs: BLASTN, BLASTP, BLASTX, TBLASTN, TBLASTX, PHI-BLAST, and PSI BLASTDetailed BLAST references, including NCBI-BLAST and WU-BLASTUnderstanding biological sequencesSequence similarity, homology, scoring matrices, scores, and evolutionSequence AlignmentCalculating BLAST statisticsIndustrial-strength BLAST, including developing applications with Perl and BLAST BLAST is the only comprehensive reference with detailed, accurate information on optimizing BLAST searches for high-throughput sequence analysis. This is a book that any biologist should own.