KoriBlast full description

KoriBlast 2.7

In this new release, the following features have been added:

1. Query NCBI major databanks and get sequences of interest using the Document Viewer's NCBI Entrez DataBase Explorer Tool. Sequence retrieval can be done interactively or in batch mode.
2. Export data in plain text files. Text format includes extended hit table and/or pairwise sequence alignments.
3. View protein sequences using the Hydrophobic Cluster Analysis (HCA) drawing system
4. Benefit from an extended display of summaries in the Search Module.
5. When creating local Blast databanks, KoriBlast now gets Fasta sequences out of these banks, instead of querying the NCBI.
6. For proteomics studies, KoriBlast computes theoretical pI and molecular weight.

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KoriBlast 2.6

In this new release, the following features have been added:

1. PSI-Blast searches are available from the Search Module and the Analyse Module has been adapted to enable extended analysis of the results (see figure below, and view this video)
2. Prepare personal Blast databanks from native GenBank, Genpept, EMBL, SwissProt and Uniprot files, using either plain text or gzipped compressed files (view this video)
3. Install pre-formatted NCBI Blast databanks directly from their native 'tar.gz' files (view this video)
4. Design search filters enabling pattern matching on hit sequences
5. Compare search results to find new, common or deleted hits
6. Export KoriBlast data files and filters to share with colleagues having KoriBlast or BlastViewer
7. New Sequence Viewer to display and manipulate sequences (extract, translate, get compositions) downloaded from public repositories (see figure below)
8. Better handling of large projects involving thousands of sequences

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In this new release, two major tools have been added: a Project Manager and a Distance Tree viewer. The former enables the user to organize his/her search jobs using multi-level hierarchies. The latter provide the user with an integrated viewer aims at exploring distance trees created from query-anchored sequence alignments.

  Other new features include:

1. A new and more compact display of query-anchored alignments, including a Sequence Logo Viewer (Analyse Module)
2. New export formats for images, alignments and trees. Creation of PDF reports (Search and Analyse Modules).
3. The capability of analysing search results procuded by ScanPS (Analyse Module)

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KoriBlast 2.4

In this new release, several user interface improvements have been added in the Search and Analyse Modules.

The Search Module runs a new job scheduler engine and is able to connect a Blast system managed by the Sun Grid Engine. This feature enables labs and companies to use KoriBlast for intensive sequence comparisons while using their own high-performance Blast search system.

During sequence data retrieval, KoriBlast now gets the various databank cross-reference identifiers (PubMed, KEGG, GO, InterPro, Enzyme, etc) that are available for the hit sequences reported in the sequence comparison results.

A new module has been added, namely the Document Viewer, to provide biologists with dedicated viewers to display complex data that does not fit within the Analyse Module frame. In this first release of the Document Viewer Module, KoriBlast provides a 3D structure viewer capable of displaying PDB entries. 

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KoriBlast 2.3

Among various improvements, KoriBlast is now capable of using a WWWBlast server , it provides a graphical interface to setup personal sequence databases and it is now possible to design search strategies combining sequence comparison, data retrieval and data filtering.

KoriBlast 2.2

The new release of KoriBlast provides the client to the EBI WU-Blast server , a Taxonomy data viewer and a graphical configuration editor.

KoriBlast 2.1

This new release of KoriBlast provides more data export capabilities, a new Map viewer, the client to a Local Blast engine. KoriBlast is also ready for Windows Vista.