About KoriBlast
A reliable graphical software environment dedicated to facilitate the exploration of biological sequence databanks. It features a unified access to remote and local sequence and data repositories, an interface to design powerful search strategies combining sequence comparison, data retrieval and data filtering, and a set of comprehensive viewers to analyse search results, sequence alignments, features data, taxonomy data, 3D structures and more.

Main features are:
– access local and online resources instantly
– schedule multiple search job quickly
– use a unified interface to several Blast systems
– design search strategies combining at once Blast searches, sequence data retrieval and data filtering
– manage personal Blast databases as easy as using a dialogue box
– analyze all data visually
– discover information only relevant to your research using data filtering
- compare search results over time to discover new hits
– keep a global work history
– export data to Spreadsheet applications
– print and save images for publishing

What’s New in this Version
- schedule search jobs on a Blast system managed by the Sun Grid Engine
- manage several search jobs in parallel - gets the various databank cross-references (PubMed, KEGG, GO, InterPro, Enzyme, etc) that are available for the hit sequences
- 3D structure viewer aims at exploring data from the Brookhaven Protein Data Bank (PDB)
- several user interface improvements