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PROGRAM

Specify the search program from the followings.

PROGRAM query Data Base an explanation
megablast nucleotide nucleotide Aligning your nucleotide sequence with nucleotide sequence database.
When you want to perform a homology search with long length of nucleotide sequence, results are provided faster than blastn program.
blastn nucleotide nucleotide Aligning your nucleotide sequence with nucleotide sequence database.
tblastn amino acid nucleotide Aligning your amino acid sequence with nucleotide sequence database by translating database sequences taking into account all six possible open reading frames.
tblastx nucleotide nucleotide Aligning your nucleotide sequence with nucleotide sequence database by translating both sequences taking into account all six possible open reading frames.
blastp amino acid amino acid Aligning your amino acid sequence with amino acid seque nce database.
blastx nucleotide amino acid Aligning your nucleotide sequence with amino acid sequence database by translating your sequence taking into account all six possible open reading frames.

QUERY NAME, QUERY SEQUENCE

  • Please input your sequence(s) in FASTA format.
  • You can use either "File Upload" or fill the box directly.
  • For multiple query sequence, sequence names to distinguish each sequences are indispensable. Names beginning at ">" should be placed on the first line of each sequence data (multi FASTA format).
  • If your query is one sequence, please enter the sequence. Attaching a sequence name is optional. A name beginning at ">" can be attached at the first line.


When your query size is too big (a large number of sequences, or each sequence is very long), the result might not be viewed in the web screen normally. In such a case, please reduce the query size to send it at one time, decreasing the number of sequences or shortening the the sequence lengths.

An example sequence in FASTA format is:
>my query sequence 1
CACCCTCTCTTCACTGGAAAGGACACCATGAGCACGGAAAGCATGATCCAGGACGTGGAA
GCTGGCCGAGGAGGCGCTCCCCAGGAAGACAGCAGGGCCCCAGGGCTCCAGGCGGTGCTG
GTTCCTCAGCCTCTTCTCCTTCCTGCTCGTGGCAGGCGCCGCCAC
Example of multiple query sequence (multi FASTA format)
>my query sequence 1
CACCCTCTCTTCACTGGAAAGGACACCATGAGCACGGAAAGCATGATCCAGGACGTGGAA
GCTGGCCGAGGAGGCGCTCCCCAGGAAGACAGCAGGGCCCCAGGGCTCCAGGCGGTGCTG
GTTCCTCAGCCTCTTCTCCTTCCTGCTCGTGGCAGGCGCCGCCAC
>my query sequence 2
GGCCAGGGCACCCAGTCTGAGAACAGCTGCACCCGCTTCCCAGGCAACCTGCCTCACATG
CTTCGAGACCTCCGAGATGCCTTCAGCAGAGTGAAGACTTTCTTTCAAATGAAGGATCAG
CTGGACAACATATTGTTAAAGGAGTCCTTGCTGGAGGACTTTAAG
>my query sequence 3
ATGGGTCTCACCTCCCAACTGCTTCCCCCTCTGTTCTTCCTGCTAGCATGTGCCGGCAAC
TTTGCCCACGGACACAACTGCCATATCGCCTTACGGGAGATCATCGAAACTCTGAACAGC
CTCACAGAGCAGAAGACTCTGTGCACCAAGTTGACCATAACGGAC

 

Data Sets

nucleotide (DATABASE, DIVISION)

Select the target database.

nucleotide database
DDBJ ALL DDBJ periodical release + daily updates
DDBJ New DDBJ daily updates
16S rRNA 16S rRNA from DDBJ periodical release

Specify the divisions.

Standard divisions
Human human
Primates primates other than human
Rodents rodents
Mammals mammals other than primates and rodents>
Vertebrates vertebrates other than mammals
Invertebrates invertebrates
Plants plants
Bacteria bacteria
Viruses viruses
Phages phages
Synthetic DNAs synthetic DNAs (SYN)
ENV environmental samples
High throughput divisions
HTC High Throughput cDNAs
HTG High Throughput Genomic sequences
TSA Transcriptome Shotgun Assembly
EST divisions
A.thaliana Arabidopsis thaliana
B.taurus Bos taurus
C.elegans Caenorhabditis elegans
C.reinhardtii Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
C.intestinalis Ciona intestinalis
D.rerio Danio rerio
D.discoideum Dictyostelium discoideum
D.melanogaster D.melanogaster
G.gallus Gallus gallus
G.max Glycine max
H.sapiens Homo sapiens
H.vulgare Hordeum vulgare (incl. subspecies)
M.truncatula Medicago truncatula (incl. mixed library)
M.musculus Mus musculus
O.sativa Oryza sativa (incl. subspecies rank)
R.norvegicus Rattus norvegicus (incl. Rattus sp.)
S.lycopersicum Solanum lycopersicum
T.aestivum Triticum aestivum
X.laevis Xenopus laevis
X.tropicalis Xenopus tropicalis
Z.mays Zea mays
Others Others
Other divisions
Patent patent (PAT)
Unannotated Seq unannotated sequences(UNA)
GSS genome survey sequences (genome survey sequences)
STS STS (sequence tagged sites)

Protein (amino acid)

UniProt (Swiss-Prot + TrEMBL) Swiss-Prot + TrEMBL
UniProt (Swiss-Prot) Swiss-Prot
UniProt (TrEMBL) TrEMBL
Patent amino acid patent data via JPO, EPO, USPTO and KIPO
(When you check the "Patent", all 4 boxes (JPO, KIPO, USPTO, EPO) was checked. If you would like to select each other, remove the unnecessary marks.)

Optional Parameters

SCORES

Specify how many homologous sequences are reported in list of homology scores. Default value is 100.
When you can not find some expected data in the result of BLAST search, it is possibly improved by using larger value for this parameter.

ALIGNMENTS

Specify how many alignments with homologous sequences are reported.
Default value is 100.
When you can not find some expected data in the result of BLAST search, it is possibly improved by using larger value for this parameter.

EXPECT value (E-value)

Specify the E-value of homologous sequences in the database.
Default value is 10. If you need to get more sequences with lower homology score, increase the "expect value”. If you need only sequences with very high homology scores, decrease the value.
It is possible to specify it by the exponent notation. (ex: 1.0E+1)

SCORING MATRIX

Specify the scoring matrix table for blastx, blastp and tblastn and tblastx.
The default matrix is BLOSUM62.

PAM30 PAM30 substitution matrix
PAM70 PAM70 substitution matrix
PAM250 PAM250 substitution matrix
BLOSUM45 BLOSUM Clustered Scoring Matrix
BLOSUM50 BLOSUM Clustered Scoring Matrix
BLOSUM62 BLOSUM Clustered Scoring Matrix
BLOSUM80 BLOSUM Clustered Scoring Matrix
BLOSUM90 BLOSUM Clustered Scoring Matrix

FILTER

Specify to preform filtering (masking) of the query sequence. Default setting of this option is "ON" (filtering is set). By using filtering, low compositional complexity regions in your query sequence are ignored.
For example, proline-rich regions and poly-A tails have a tendency to coincide with an unusually high score. Although statistically significant, such results usually reflect the structural uniqueness of these regions and are unlikely to be biologically significant.
The query sequence is filtered by the computer program DUST of Tatusov and Lipman in BLASTN, and by SEG of Wootton and Federhen otherwise. Low compositional complexity regions ignored by filtering are replaced by "N"s in the nucleotide sequence and by "X"s in the amino acid sequence.

WORD SIZE

Specify a natural number. Default values are 28 for megablast, 11 for blastn, and 3 for the other programs.
 

Request ID and BLAST result

Request ID

After pressing the "Send to BLAST" button, Request ID is displayed on the web screen. Don't loose this ID because it is necessary for using the "Result Viewer" and/or inquiring to DDBJ for your search.


例)  Request ID: wabi_blast_2013-0314-1407-23-16-946732
 

View the flatfile of the entries

Select the accession numbers, and prres the "getentry"button. You can view the flatfile of the sequences in the getentry.

Result Viewer

You can view your result using "Request ID" at any time (within the retention period).

 

The results will be deleted after 7 days.
 


ClustalW Set up

Select the sequences which you would like to suceed the clustalW, then press the "ClustalW" button. Your selected sequences are automatically pasted in the ClustalW query box.

 

Reference

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