Category Archives: Magic-BLAST
NCBI events at the Bioinformatics Open Science Conference 2021 (BOSC 2021)
Come visit us virtually to learn about new NCBI data access, tools and best practices at the Bioinformatics Open Science Conference part of the ISMB/ECCB online conference from July 29 – 30, 2021. We will be presenting virtual posters on NCBI resources, offering a Birds of a Feather discussion, and participating in the BOSC (CoFest) … Continue reading NCBI events at the Bioinformatics Open Science Conference 2021 (BOSC 2021)
Magic-BLAST version 1.5.0 is here!
We’ve just released a new version of Magic-BLAST with several new, user-driven enhancements like: Nanopore sequence alignment Improved multithreading performance Support for the new BLAST database version, BLASTDBv5, that allows you to limit your search by taxonomy More reliable placements … Continue reading
Posted by BLAST, DNA-Seq, Magic-BLAST, RNA-Seq, What's New
inMagic-BLAST (v1.4.0), an accurate DNA and RNA-Seq aligner
What is Magic-BLAST and why are we excited about it? Magic-BLAST is a BLAST tool, but it’s unlike any other. It aligns next generation sequencing reads, both DNA and RNA-seq. It implements the aligner algorithm from MAGIC [1], a trusted … Continue reading
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in5 NCBI articles in 2018 Nucleic Acids Research database issue
The 2018 Nucleic Acids Research database issue features several papers from NCBI staff that cover the status and future of databases including CCDS, ClinVar, GenBank and RefSeq. These papers are also available on PubMed. To read an article, click on … Continue reading
Magic-BLAST 1.3.0 released with new features and improvements
The newest version of Magic-BLAST (v. 1.3.0) offers improved sensitivity and faster run-times as well as a number of other new features and improvements. These include the ability to set the alignment cut-off score as a function of read length, … Continue reading
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inIntroducing Magic-BLAST
Magic-BLAST is a new tool for mapping large sets of next-generation RNA or DNA sequencing runs against a whole genome or transcriptome. Magic-BLAST executables for LINUX, MacOSX, and Windows as well as the source files are available on the FTP … Continue reading
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