> From gt3110a at prism.gatech.edu Sun Jul 20 13:39:26 1997
> Is there any software available for PC that does the same thing as
> BLASTN, but using local database (sequence files on hard drive)?
> Thanks.
Nanfei,
FASTA will probably do the trick for you ... It's available
from:
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Organiz.: University of Virginia / USA
Address : uvaarpa.virginia.edu (128.143.2.7)
Programs: Name=FASTA; Desc=database search program; OS=UNIX,
DOS and McIntosh; Directory= /pub/fasta
Contact : William Pearson; wrp at virginia.edu
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(the above lines taken from Amos Bairoch's serv_ftp.txt
available from the Expasy www server at
http://expasy.hcuge.ch/)
We plan to have a NT version of blast in the near future, but
we are still in development and testing.
cheers,
francis
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