What is BLAST?
The BLAST@PlantGDB server implements the standard NCBI BLAST as its search engine. The unique feature of BLAST@PlantGDB is its flexibility in database selection. Users are able to search against single or multiple BLAST databases of their choice simultaneously (e.g., only rice or maize ESTs, or both; or all monocot ESTs; or rice ESTs and all cereal EST contigs; etc.).
What is GeneSeqer?
The GeneSeqer@PlantGDB server implements the GeneSeqer spliced alignment program.
It produces plant gene structure models based on spliced alignment to genomic sequences of both native and homologous ESTs, cDNAs and protein sequences. Click here to try out the GeneSeqer tutorial.
What is SeqPattern?
The SeqPattern server (AKA the Pattern Search server) is a specialized VMATCH
server that allows you to conduct pattern searches, i.e., searches for relatively short matches possibly interspersed with mismatches and
indels.
