/PSI-BLASTexB

PSI-BLAST with a new sequence weighting algorithm

Primary LanguageC++GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0LGPL-3.0

PSI-BLASTexB

PSI-BLAST with a new sequence weighting algorithm

Installation

Source code is in src. You may need GCC version 4.6 or higher.

For LINUX (64-bit) operating systems, binaries are provided in binaries.

Usage

Everything is identical to the original PSI-BLAST.

About PSI-BLAST

Altschul, Stephen F., et al. "Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: a new generation of protein database search programs." Nucleic acids research 25.17 (1997): 3389-3402.

Camacho C., Coulouris G., Avagyan V., Ma N., Papadopoulos J., Bealer K., & Madden T.L. (2008) "BLAST+: architecture and applications." BMC Bioinformatics 10:421

Citation

Oda T, Lim K, Tomii K. 2016. Simple adjustment of the sequence weight algorithm remarkably enhances PSI-BLAST performance. bioRxiv doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/092742

Contact

Toshiyuki Oda

Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

e-mail: toshiyuki.oda@aist.go.jp