TY  - JOUR
N1  - Copyright of this article belongs to Informa Healthcare.
ID  - open262
UR  - http://www.biotechniques.com/multimedia/archive/00009/02333st05_9075a.pdf
IS  - 3
A1  - Issac, Biju
A1  - Raghava, G.P.S.
Y1  - 2002/09//
N2  - Similarity searches are a powerful method for solving important biological problems such as database scanning, evolutionary studies, gene prediction, and protein structure prediction. FASTA is a widely used sequence comparison tool for rapid database scanning. Here we describe the GWFASTA server that was developed to assist the FASTA user in similarity searches against partially and/or completely sequenced genomes. GWFASTA consists of more than 60 microbial genomes, eight eukaryote genomes, and proteomes of annotatedgenomes. Infact, it provides the maximum number of databases for similarity searching from a single platform. GWFASTA allows the submission of more than one sequence as a single query for a FASTA search. It also provides integrated post-processing of FASTA output, including compositional analysis of proteins, multiple sequences alignment, and phylogenetic analysis. Furthermore, it summarizes the search results organism-wise for prokaryotes and chromosome-wise for eukaryotes. Thus, the integration of different tools for sequence analyses makes GWFASTA a powerful toolfor biologists.
PB  - Informa healthcare/ Biotechniques.com
JF  - BioTechniques
VL  - 33
SN  - 0736-6205
TI  - GWFASTA: server for FASTA search in eukaryotic and microbial genomes.
SP  - 548
AV  - restricted
EP  - 50, 552, 554
ER  -