iBLAST: Incremental BLAST of new sequences via automated e-value correction.

Search results from local alignment search tools use statistical scores that are sensitive to the size of the database to report the quality of the result. For example, NCBI BLAST reports the best matches using similarity scores and expect values (i.e., e-values) calculated against the database size...

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Main Authors: Sajal Dash, Sarthok Rasique Rahman, Heather M Hines, Wu-Chun Feng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249410