BlastStation-Cloud Help

Welcome

Introduction to BlastStation-Cloud

　FASTA data input

　Job submission

　How to read results

Instructions in detail

　Download NCBI database

　Download General database

　Create database

　Remove database

　Change database folder

　Delete jobs

　Backup jobs

　Restore jobs

　Search parameters settings

　Navigation in result window

　Export search results

　Export FASTA data

　Preference settings

　Data directory

Menu Reference

　File menu

　Edit menu

　Job menu

　Tools menu

　Help menu

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Welcome

BlastStation in the Cloud is an interface program to perform local BLAST searches with the NCBI BLAST software on Amazon EC2 instance.
 

Major features

• Standalone BLAST search with 64-bit NCBI BLAST+ 2.2.25
• High performance standalone BLAST search using automatically detected available multi cores.
• Supports database alias file which ties up multiple individual databases to form a large virtual database.
• Easy database download from the NCBI ftp server.
• Easy FASTA file download to create databases from any ftp or web servers.
• Easy formatted databases download from any ftp or web servers.
• Easy database creation from your FASTA file.
• Easy multi-FASTA data search.
• Easy management of BLAST search parameters, FASTA data and search results.
• Graphical display of search results.
• Summary table display of search results.
• Export summary table in CSV format.
• Export search results sequences in FASTA format.