Getting NCBI BLAST+ Latest Release

locBLAST v2.1 is an enhanced PHP library for embedding command-line NCBI BLAST+ program to interactive web interface and parsing BlastOutput2 XML report of NCBI BLAST to interactive graphical overview and summary table of the sequence alignment. The graphical summary is mimic to the native format of online NCBI BLAST.

The list of features of locBLAST v2.1 are below,

• Latest NCBI BLAST+ release check.

• Simple tutorial on locBLAST.

  

An enhanced PHP web interface to standalone NCBI BLAST+ program

locBLAST v2.0 is an enhanced PHP library for embedding command-line NCBI BLAST+ program to interactive web interface and parsing BlastOutput2 XML report of NCBI BLAST to interactive graphical overview and summary table of the sequence alignment. The graphical summary is mimic to the native format of online NCBI BLAST.

The list of features of locBLAST v2.0 are below,

• The home page of locBLAST v2.0 web form has added with more features, (1) progress bar and status bar, (2) advanced BLAST+ programs deltablast, psiblast, rpsblast, and rpstblastn, (3) hyperlink to detailed program description page, with short title, (4) graphical or plain text output, (5) advanced algorithm parameters, (6) tutorial page, and (7) mouse over tooltip text description of the keyword.

  

• Graphical overview of the sequence alignment hits with mouse over tooltip text description on hyperlinks. Color keys represents the score of the sequence alignment.

  

• Summary table of sequence alignment hits consisting of sequence description, total score, percentage of query coverage, e-value, identity, and accession number. Hyperlinks to alignment hit section and reference link to biological sequence database.

• Formatted sequence alignment for plus, minus, six-reading frames, and translated nucleotide sequences. Hyperlinks to biological sequence database in header description. Hide or show (toggle) options to large descriptions. Allows to save sequence to the disk in FASTA file format.