ViroBLAST is a web tool to provide sequence comparison and contamination checking on viral research. ViroBLAST is readily useful for all research areas that require BLAST functions and is available as a downloadable archive for independent installation (current version: viroblast-2.11.0). ViroBLAST implements the NCBI C++ Toolkit BLAST command line applications referred as the BLAST+ applications.
With the common features of other Blast tools, the ViroBLAST provides features like:
- Blast multiple query sequences at a time via copy-paste sequences or upload sequence fasta file.
- Provide email option to receive the result via email.
- Blast against user's own sequence data set besides the public databases on ViroBLAST.
- Blast against multiple sequence databases simultaneously (Using "Command" key [Mac] or "Ctrl" key [Windows] to select multiple databases or deselect database).
- Summarize results via tabular output and allows further analysis.
- Download sequences in databases that match user's query sequences.
Deng W, Nickle DC, Learn GH, Maust B, and Mullins JI. 2007. ViroBLAST: A stand-alone BLAST web server for flexible queries of multiple databases and user's datasets. Bioinformatics 23(17):2334-2336.