Blast microbial genome webpage:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sutils/genom_table.cgi?organism=microb
It's help document...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sutils/static/prokblasthelp.html
Using the interface
For both the text or the graphic methods of choosing target genomes, the user must provide the type of BLAST search to be performed. The type of BLAST is specifically predicated upon the specific sequence type - nucleic acid or protein for either the query sequence or the target genome. The relationships are shown in the following table.
| Query | Genome | BLAST |
| nucleic acid | nucleic acid | blastn or tblastx |
| protein | nucleic acid | tblastn |
| nucleic acid | protein | blastx |
| protein | protein | blastp |
The pull-down menus for the query sequence or target genomes or BLAST type are not independent. The choice of sequence types, both for the query and target genomes, determines the type of BLAST performed. Likewise choosing the type of BLAST determines the types of sequences, both for the query and the target genomes. The user is offered the opportunity to select BLAST parameters which are not default.
Graphic tree
The query sequence must be provided to the application before choosing the target genomes. Clicking on an outlined Linnaean group (order or family) name elicits a menu displaying the available genomes. If the group is comprised of two or more organisms, one can chose all of the group or one of the group. To chose a subset greater than two of those genomes available, the text tree must be employed. Clicking the choice initiates the BLAST query. It is possible toinclude all underlying taxonomic groups as target sequences by clicking on the area labeled with the encompassing taxonomic name - i.e. clicking on "Bacteria" offers all bacteria genomes (complete and partial) as target sequences.
Text tree/alphabetic table
In that initiation of the BLAST query is explicitly performed by clicking on the "BLAST" button at the top of the list, the order in which target genomes and query sequence are provided is not pertinent. The number of chosen target genomes is provided as an aid during choosing a lengthy list from the available genomes.
The NCBI BLAST family of programs includes:
- blastp
- compares an amino acid query sequence against a protein sequence database
- blastn
- compares a nucleotide query sequence against a nucleotide sequence database
- blastx
- compares a nucleotide query sequence translated in all reading frames against a protein sequence database
- tblastn
- compares a protein query sequence against a nucleotide sequence database dynamically translated in all reading frames
- tblastx
- compares the six-frame translations of a nucleotide query sequence
against the six-frame translations of a nucleotide sequence database. Please note that tblastx program cannot be used with the nr database on the BLAST Web page.
BLAST Search main parameters
Some popular groups are: Archaea Bacteria Eukaryota Embryophyta (higher plants) Fungi Metazoa (multicellular animals) Vertebrata Mammalia Rodentia Primates
Filtering is only applied to the query sequence (or its translation products), not to database sequences. Default filtering is DUST for BLASTN, SEG for other programs.
It is not unusual for nothing at all to be masked by SEG, when applied to sequences in SWISS-PROT, so filtering should not be expected to always yield an effect. Furthermore, in some cases, sequences are masked in their entirety, indicating that the statistical significance of any matches reported against the unfiltered query sequence should be suspect.
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