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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Welcome

BlastStation-Local is an interface program to perform local BLAST searches on your PC with the NCBI BLAST software.
 

Major features

• Standalone BLAST search with NCBI BLAST 2.2.25 on your PC.
• High performance standalone BLAST search using automatically detected available multi cores on your PC.
• Easy database download from the NCBI ftp server to your PC.
• Easy database creation from your FASTA or FASTQ file.
• Easy multi-FASTA data search.
• Easy management of BLAST search parameters, FASTA data and search results.
• Graphical display of search results.
• Summary table display of search results.
• Export summary table in CSV format.
• Export search results sequences in FASTA format.

System Requirements

• Mac OS X 10.4.11, 10.5.8, 10.6.8 or later
• PowerPC or Intel processor
• 512 MB RAM

BlastStation-Local64 Only

• Standalone BLAST+ search with 64-bit NCBI BLAST+ 2.2.25 on your PC.
• Supports database alias file which ties up multiple individual databases to form a large virtual database.

• Mac OS X 10.5.8, 10.6.8 or later
• 64-bit Intel processor
• 1 GB RAM