BlastStation-Local Help

Welcome

Introduction to BlastStation-Local

 FASTA data input

 Job submission

 How to read results

Instructions in detail

 Download 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 folders

Menu Reference

 BlastStation-Local menu

 File menu

 Edit menu

 Job menu

 Tools menu

 Help menu

 

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How to read results

When BLAST search is finished, the following dialog will be displayed.

Let's click "Yes" to see search results.

Bar graph is shown on the upper half.  The color of the bar is classified by the identity.  Red is 100%, purple is 90% or more, and so on.  The length of the query sequence (606 in this case) is given above the black bar at the top.  You can easily understand which portion of the subject sequence matches with the query sequence.  Move your mouse cursor on the bars.  The color of the bar changes and four numbers will be displayed. 

Table is shown on the lower half, which consists of ID, Accession number, Definition, length, bit score, E Value, and Identity.

In order to display the other search results, click arrows below.

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When you click "Jump" button, the drawer will be shown next to the window.  Description of each FASTA file will be listed in this drawer.  Clicking each description will display corresponding search result.  If you have many descriptions, type in search strings in the text field and hit enter to narrow this list.  Clicking "Jump" button again will hide the drawer.

Job > Display Alignment menu will open Alignment window.  The detailed alignment information will be displayed when the bar graph in the Results pane is clicked.

Job > Display Results menu will display Blast results file in the default browser.