On Thu, 6 Jan 1994, Brian Foley wrote:
> Can someone tell me what is the best software for viewing the
> output from an NCBI BLAST search? Whether I read the output in my
> UNIX e-mail, my Mac e-mail, or convert it to a text editor (MS-Word)
> document, the alignments do not line up without messing with them.
> It seems that the output uses TABs rather than spaces to
> format the output, and these TABs do not correspond to the ones
> I have. Perhaps if I just knew what the TAB settings were...
>> Does the BLAST output look great when it is imported into
> WordPerfect or some other text editor?
>> --
> ********************************************************************
> * Brian Foley * If we knew what we were doing *
> * Molecular Genetics Dept. * it wouldn't be called research *
> * University of Vermont * *
>>
There is a shareware Windows program called WINBLAST, which is
designed to:
1. Format a blast search query through window's dialog box.
2. View the search results and save selected alignments to
file.
3. Autamatically format a retrieval request for database
entries corresponding to selected alignments.
I don't remember any more from which FTP site I got it originally,
for sure it shall be available from the author - A. V. Sivaprasad,
avs at biochem.adelaide.edu.au.
Mila Juricek
Dept. of Biochemistry
Mahidol University
Bangkok
