In article <1eb3f133.0206130406.a971a82 at posting.google.com>,
Andrea <webmaster at bioinformatik.de> wrote:
>2. Has anyone here experience with the new "Blast" called Blat?
>Do you think it will be faster than BLAST?
>Are the results comparable?
I've used standalone BLAT (downloaded from Jim Kent's site). It's more
like Megablast than like BLAST itself (though the algorithm is different)
- it's optimised for matching highly similar sequences, and may miss
the more divergent sequences and shorter alignments that BLAST detects.
For tasks like matching a few hundred ESTs to a genome, I've found that
BLAT is much faster than NCBI BLAST, but gives comparable alignments that
are easier to parse (you get a nice tabular output - the sequences
themselves aren't shown). Megablast (included in the NCBI BLAST
distribution) may also have these advantages, but I haven't done a direct
comparison.
Richard.
