PLAN 1.0 RC19
:: DESCRIPTION
PLAN (Personal BLAST Navigator) is a versatile web platform that helps users to carry out various personalized pre- and post-BLAST tasks, including: (1) query and target sequence database management, (2) automated high-throughput BLAST searching, (3) indexing and searching of results, (4) filtering results online, (5) managing results of personal interest in favorite categories, (6) automated sequence annotation (such as NCBI NR and ontology-based annotation). PLAN integrates, by default, the Decypher hardware-based BLAST solution provided by Active Motif Inc. with a greatly improved efficiency over conventional BLAST software. BLAST results are visualized by spreadsheets and graphs and are full-text searchable. BLAST results and sequence annotations can be exported, in part or in full, in various formats including Microsoft Excel and FASTA. Sequences and BLAST results are organized in projects, the data publication levels of which are controlled by the registered project owners. In addition, all analytical functions are provided to public users without registration.
::DEVELOPER
The Zhao Bioinformatics Laboratory
:: REQUIREMENTS
:: DOWNLOAD
:: MORE INFORMATION
Citation:
He, J., Dai, X. and Zhao, X. (2007).
PLAN: A web platform for automating high-throughput BLAST searches and for managing and mining results.
BMC Bioninformatics 8:53.
