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GWFASTA: server for FASTA search in eukaryotic and microbial genomes.

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Title GWFASTA: server for FASTA search in eukaryotic and microbial genomes.
 
Creator Issac, Biju
Raghava, G.P.S.
 
Subject QR Microbiology
 
Description Similarity searches are a powerful method for solving important biological problems such as database scanning, evolutionary studies, gene prediction, and protein structure prediction. FASTA is a widely used sequence comparison tool for rapid database scanning. Here we describe the GWFASTA server that was developed to assist the FASTA user in similarity searches against partially and/or completely sequenced genomes. GWFASTA consists of more than 60 microbial genomes, eight eukaryote genomes, and proteomes of annotatedgenomes. Infact, it provides the maximum number of databases for similarity searching from a single platform. GWFASTA allows the submission of more than one sequence as a single query for a FASTA search. It also provides integrated post-processing of FASTA output, including compositional analysis of proteins, multiple sequences alignment, and phylogenetic analysis. Furthermore, it summarizes the search results organism-wise for prokaryotes and chromosome-wise for eukaryotes. Thus, the integration of different tools for sequence analyses makes GWFASTA a powerful toolfor biologists.
 
Publisher Informa healthcare/ Biotechniques.com
 
Date 2002-09
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://crdd.osdd.net/open/262/1/raghava2002.1.pdf
Issac, Biju and Raghava, G.P.S. (2002) GWFASTA: server for FASTA search in eukaryotic and microbial genomes. BioTechniques, 33 (3). 548-50, 552, 554. ISSN 0736-6205
 
Relation http://www.biotechniques.com/multimedia/archive/00009/02333st05_9075a.pdf
http://crdd.osdd.net/open/262/