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paraBLAST is a tool to perform an "all versus all comparison" using NCBI's Blast homology searching
technology. Unlike other implementations, which use only the standard threaded BLAST programs, paraBLAST is a truly
parallel implementation of the BLAST algorithm. Running on Unix clusters (including Linux), paraBLAST will
give you additional boost of performance.
From within the paraBLAST web interface users can easily create projects and start experiments
(i.e. paraBLAST runs). The results of these runs can be viewed from the web interface, and can shared
with other users in the same project group.
The web interface is written in PHP, HTML and basic Javascript.
MySQL is used for user session management and for the storage of paraBLAST results.
Features
- runs on Unix clusters, including Linux.
- compares all sequences in database A against all in database B (A and B may be identical).
- has a HTML Web interface to manage paraBLAST users and projects.
- start experiments and view the stored results.
- search results are stored in MySQL (by default) or just as text file (e.g. for SRS integration).
- once configured, little to no BLAST configuration knowledge needed: e.g. the input database in FASTA format is converted to BLAST format on the fly.
Features under development
- full support for nucleotide databases.
- full support for large database splitting.
- user interface to monitor the progress of your paraBLAST runs.
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