PMID- 18440982 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20080804 LR - 20220409 IS - 1362-4962 (Electronic) IS - 0305-1048 (Print) IS - 0305-1048 (Linking) VI - 36 IP - Web Server issue DP - 2008 Jul 1 TI - NCBI BLAST: a better web interface. PG - W5-9 LID - 10.1093/nar/gkn201 [doi] AB - Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) is a sequence similarity search program. The public interface of BLAST, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast, at the NCBI website has recently been reengineered to improve usability and performance. Key new features include simplified search forms, improved navigation, a list of recent BLAST results, saved search strategies and a documentation directory. Here, we describe the BLAST web application's new features, explain design decisions and outline plans for future improvement. FAU - Johnson, Mark AU - Johnson M AD - National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Building 38A, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA. FAU - Zaretskaya, Irena AU - Zaretskaya I FAU - Raytselis, Yan AU - Raytselis Y FAU - Merezhuk, Yuri AU - Merezhuk Y FAU - McGinnis, Scott AU - McGinnis S FAU - Madden, Thomas L AU - Madden TL LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural DEP - 20080424 PL - England TA - Nucleic Acids Res JT - Nucleic acids research JID - 0411011 SB - IM MH - Databases, Genetic MH - Internet MH - National Library of Medicine (U.S.) MH - *Sequence Alignment MH - *Software MH - United States MH - User-Computer Interface PMC - PMC2447716 EDAT- 2008/04/29 09:00 MHDA- 2008/08/05 09:00 PMCR- 2008/04/24 CRDT- 2008/04/29 09:00 PHST- 2008/04/29 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2008/08/05 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2008/04/29 09:00 [entrez] PHST- 2008/04/24 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - gkn201 [pii] AID - 10.1093/nar/gkn201 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Nucleic Acids Res. 2008 Jul 1;36(Web Server issue):W5-9. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkn201. Epub 2008 Apr 24.