The BLAST+ 5 (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) update has introduced several key enhancements aimed at improving performance, user experience, and compatibility with evolving genomic data standards. Here are the major updates:
Researchers in Andhra Pradesh have developed a database to identify genes that are common in tumours to provide their colleagues with easy access to insights into the genetic alterations in cancer.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov - Comparative genomics remains a pivotal strategy to study the evolution of gene organization, and this primacy is reinforced by the growing number of full genome sequences available in public repositories. Despite this growth, bioinformatic tools...
www.ebi.ac.uk - Enzyme Portal- To look for information about the biology of a protein with enzymatic activity.
The enzyme portal integrates many resources, most of them hosted by EBI and also external ones such as BioPortal. Its main goal is to provide...
webs.iiitd.edu.in - Fragile sites are specific chromosomal region that exhibit an increased frequency of chromosdomal breakge when cells are exposed to replicative stress. Since from the discovery of chromosomal fragile sites/regions (CFS), several line of evidence...
busco-data.ezlab.org - The BUSCO software now directly downloads the necessary datasets, specified by the user or automatically selected.
To display all available datasets
busco --list-datasets
You can also download them manually and see...
csbl.bmb.uga.edu - dbCAN is a web server and DataBase for automated Carbohydrate-active enzyme ANnotation, funded by the BioEnergy Science Center of the DOE. Similar resources on the web include CAZy database and CAT. All...
Presented July 30, 2014 and covering: an NCBI BLAST AMI at Amazon Web Services; introduction to AWS and setting up an instance; running command line BLAST and using the BLAST URL API via the AMI; and answers to attendee questions.