/BLASTmap

Visualisation of BLAST data as interactive heat maps

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BLASTmap v1.0

Source code of BLASTmap Shiny web app.

BLASTmap is written in R (version 3.2.0 tested). To run BLASTmap locally, RStudio is recommended. Required R packages:

  • shiny
  • shinythemes
  • d3heatmap
  • reshape2
  • htmlwidgets
  • RColorBrewer
  • gplots
  • grDevices

The input required is tab- or column-delimited BLAST output in the form: Query name, hit name, percentage identity, alignment length, mismatches, gaps, query start, query end, hit start, hit end, e-value, bitscore.

BLASTmap is distributed under the MIT licence.

Citation

If you use BLASTmap, please cite:

Baker K., Stephen G., Strachan S., Armstrong M., Hein I. (2018) BLASTmap: A Shiny-Based Application to Visualize BLAST Results as Interactive Heat Maps and a Tool to Design Gene-Specific Baits for Bespoke Target Enrichment Sequencing. In: Ma W., Wolpert T. (eds) Plant Pathogenic Fungi and Oomycetes. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1848. Humana Press, New York, NY