About TCM-Blast

Traditional Chinese Medicine Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (TCM-Blast) is a web interface for traditional Chinese medicine protein and DNA sequence similarity searches. It contains about the size of 40G traditional Chinese medicines¡¯ genome data, including protein and DNA sequence for 36 traditional Chinese medicines with high medical value.The development of a publicly accessible traditional Chinese medicine genome alignment database hosted on the TCM-Blast website ¨C http://viroblast.pungentdb.org.cn/viroblast/ viroblast.php- expands to query multiple sequence databases to obtain TCM genome data, and provides friendly output for easy analysis and browsing of BLAST results.

ViroBLAST in Dr. Mullins Lab at University of Washington was established to provide sequence comparison and contamination checking on viral research. It is readily useful for all research areas that require BLAST functions and is available as a downloadable archive for independent installation. ViroBLAST implements the NCBI C++ Toolkit BLAST command line applications referred as the BLAST+ applications.

With the common features of other BLAST tools, the ViroBLAST provides features like:

  1. Blast multiple query sequences at a time via copy-paste sequences or upload sequence fasta file.
  2. Provide email option to receive the result via email.
  3. Blast against user's own sequence data set besides the public databases on ViroBLAST.
  4. Blast against multiple sequence databases simultaneously.
  5. Summarize results via tabular output and allows further analysis.
  6. Download sequences in databases that match user's query sequences.

Please cite the following paper if you use ViroBLAST:

Deng W, Nickle DC, Learn GH, Maust B, and Mullins JI. 2007. ViroBLAST: A stand-alone BLAST web server for flexible queries of multiple databases and user's datasets. Bioinformatics 23(17):2334-2336.