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New BLAST Interface Allows Selecting Individual Maps

21:20 21 March 2019 in Desktop Version
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If you have worked with the wheat or human genome, you are probably familiar with a typical long wait for getting BLAST search results for these quite large genomes. To save you some time, we have introduced a feature in Persephone Windows version that allows selecting individual maps for BLAST search. (By the way, the web version has had it for quite some time).

In case the set of maps contains a mixture of chromosomes and multiple scaffolds, the user will still be able to select individual chromosomes. To select the rest of maps, most probably scaffolds, we added a node called “Other” (see the cacao map set):

Visual BLAST search allows selecting individual chromosomes