Paper · 20003500

BLAST+: architecture and applications.

Camacho C and 6 others. BMC Bioinformatics, 2009. Cited by 16,064 papers, by iCite.

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Title: BLAST+: architecture and applications.; PubMed
Journal: BMC Bioinformatics; PubMed
Year: 2009; PubMed
Publication types: Journal Article, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural; PubMed
PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20003500/; PubMed
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-10-421; PubMed
PMC: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2803857/; PubMed
The journal: https://conductscience.org/library/journal-index/100965194; PubMed
Citations, by iCite: 16,064; iCite
Relative citation ratio, by iCite: 459; iCite
Revised in PubMed: 2025-02-14; PubMed

Authors7

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Order	Author	Forename
1	Camacho C	Christiam
2	Coulouris G	George
3	Avagyan V	Vahram
4	Ma N	Ning
5	Papadopoulos J	Jason
6	Bealer K	Kevin
7	Madden TL	Thomas L

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MeSH term	Major
Computational Biology	Major topic
Software	Major topic
Databases, Genetic
Sequence Alignment

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References14

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Order	PMID	Title	Journal	Year	In Papers	Source
1	18,567,917	Database indexing for production MegaBLAST searches.	Bioinformatics	2008	https://conductscience.org/library/papers/18567917	PubMed
2	9,705,509	Protein sequence similarity searches using patterns as seeds.	Nucleic Acids Res	1998	https://conductscience.org/library/papers/9705509	PubMed
3	10,745,990	IMPALA: matching a protein sequence against a collection of PSI-BLAST-constructed position-specific score matrices.	Bioinformatics	1999	https://conductscience.org/library/papers/10745990	PubMed
4	11,452,024	Improving the accuracy of PSI-BLAST protein database searches with composition-based statistics and other refinements.	Nucleic Acids Res	2001	https://conductscience.org/library/papers/11452024	PubMed
5	11,932,250	BLAT--the BLAST-like alignment tool.	Genome Res	2002	https://conductscience.org/library/papers/11932250	PubMed
6	9,254,694	Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: a new generation of protein database search programs.	Nucleic Acids Res	1997	https://conductscience.org/library/papers/9254694	PubMed
7	10,890,397	A greedy algorithm for aligning DNA sequences.	J Comput Biol	2000	https://conductscience.org/library/papers/10890397	PubMed
8	8,743,706	Analysis of compositionally biased regions in sequence databases.	Methods Enzymol	1996	https://conductscience.org/library/papers/8743706	PubMed
9	16,761,921	A deterministic finite automaton for faster protein hit detection in BLAST.	J Comput Biol	2006	https://conductscience.org/library/papers/16761921	PubMed
10	18,440,982	NCBI BLAST: a better web interface.	Nucleic Acids Res	2008	https://conductscience.org/library/papers/18440982	PubMed

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