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Nucleic Acids Research 2008 36(Web Server issue):W5-W9; doi:10.1093/nar/gkn201
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Nucleic Acids Research, 2008, Vol. 36, No. suppl_2 W5-W9
© 2008 The Author(s)
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/uk/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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NCBI BLAST: a better web interface

Mark Johnson, Irena Zaretskaya, Yan Raytselis, Yuri Merezhuk, Scott McGinnis and Thomas L. Madden*

National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Building 38A, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +1 301 435 5991; Fax: +1 301 480 0814; Email: madden{at}ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Received January 30, 2008. Revised March 18, 2008. Accepted April 4, 2008.

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.


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