The Hitachi Software MiraiBio Group Blog

DNASIS MAX has the ability to search for homologous sequences to your sequence with BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool). BLAST finds regions of local similarity between sequences. The program compares nucleotide or protein sequences to sequence databases and calculates the statistical significance of matches. BLAST can be used to infer functional and evolutionary relationships between sequences as well as help identify members of gene families.

The following procedure guides you through utilizing BLAST against NCBI’s sequence databases.

Read the rest of this entry »

DNASIS MAX has the ability to search for homologous sequences to your sequence with Blast which is
useful in judging if the sequence is novel or even add annotations from known gene information. The following procedure guides you through utilizing Blast against an internal sequence database.

Read the rest of this entry »

1. A job queuing system was implemented - You no longer need to wait for compute-intensive results (e.g. BLAST searches on multiple sequences) to come back. Just submit a job and continue working. When the results are in, you’ll be notified.

2. You can now add comments to tools and read other users’ comments. See what your colleagues have to say about which tools are best for a given task, or if there’s any tips and tricks to get the most value from a tool.

3. Auto-scrolling to results has been fixed - When you click on a result in the left pane, the right pane will automatically scroll to the corresponding position on the page so you can instantly access any result.

4. More help features to guide new users - You’ll notice several new icons to help you use SmartNote’s features.

5. Other cool additions such as the new animated progress icon for the sequence manager window.

6. Many bug fixes - everything just works more smoothly.

Remember to tell us what you think about DNASIS SmartNote and what new features you’d like to see. We’ve been making changes weekly, so as long as your request is reasonable, we’ll most likely be able to add it.