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What is BlastStation? |
| With BlastStation you can perform
BLAST homology searches and find DNA or
proteins which has the similar sequences from the
databases. NCBI BLAST searches using the EBI server,
WU-Blast2 searches using the EBI server, and local NCBI BLAST
searches on
your PC are currently supported with BlastStation2. All
searches are done with the same easy to use
interface. |
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What are the differences between BlastStations? |
| BlastStation2 is the flagship BlastStation
with which you can perform NCBI BLAST searches using the
EBI server, WU-Blast2
searches using the EBI server, and local
NCBI BLAST searches on your PC. |
| BlastStation-Local is
specialized to local NCBI BLAST searches. |
| BlastStation-Local64 is
specialized to 64-bit local NCBI BLAST+ searches. |
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BlastStation-Workgroup is
web-based 64-bit local BlastStation designed for small
to mid-sized groups. |
| BlastStation-Free is free
edition of BlastStation2 with some restrictions. |
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How to perform faster local BLAST search on my PC? |
| When you perform local BLAST search on
your PC, BLAST program will be executed as one process.
Since many programs are executed at the same time on
Windows PC or Macintosh computer, the BLAST process
can't utilize 100% of the CPU performance and
utilization ratio is not always the same. If there
are many processes running on your PC, the elapsed time
to perform BLAST search will be longer and the search speed
will be
slower. In order to get the highest performance of
the local BLAST, please quit unnecessary programs and do
not use your PC during the searches. |
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Is it possible to create BLAST database from
my FASTQ or SCARF data? |
| BlastStation accepts only FASTA data
to create BLAST databases. FASTQ or SCARF data
will be converted to FASTA data by the script called
fq_all2std.pl in
Maq package. This script is found
here |
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How I can specify identifiers
in my local BLAST database? |
When creating
local database, please specify identifier in the
description line for each FASTA datum like
> lcl|identifier
Then create database with Indexing ON in Create DB
window. The default Indexing is OFF.
Identifiers
will be shown in accession column in BlastStation
Results pane.
The details of how to specify identifier are found
here |
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When I launch BlastStation, it says "We
have not yet received your payment. BlastStation will not start
until payment is received." and it
won't start. I purchased BlastStation license, though. |
| BlastStation license is one CPU
license. That means your license is allowed
to use on one PC only. When you attempt to use the
same license on more than two PCs, this message will be
shown. If you purchase new PC and want to transfer
your license to the new one, please submit license
transfer request from
here. We accept license transfer request once in 6
months. |
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Do you have volume discount program for
multiple licenses? |
| Yes. Discount rate depend on
the number of licenses you purchase at the same time. Please ask for details. |
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