Enhanced Access to
Taxonomy Database

New Human-Mouse
Homology Map

Catch the Gene
Expression Omnibus

A Pair of Pathogens
Added to GenBank

Protein Molecular
Weight Field
Now in Entrez

OMIM In Entrez:
New Searching Power

Web Server
Software Available
for BLAST

Recent Publications

News Briefs

BLAST Lab

PSI-BLAST 2.1
Offers Composition-
Based Statistics

Slight Address Change
for NCBI FTP Server

Masthead

NCBI now offers Web server packages that support Advanced BLAST, PHI-BLAST, and PSI-BLAST. Available for Unix and Linux platforms, these packages can be installed in minutes and provide the NCBI BLAST interface, including the popular graphical overview and taxonomically organized outputs. These packages also support batch searches and XML output. Custom BLAST databases, processed with formatdb (included), can be added to the database pull-down menu by performing simple edits to two ASCII files. Download the Web BLAST server package from ftp://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/server/current_release/. —DW, SM

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