Comparison of BlasterJS to other BLAST data viewers.

Notes for selected categories: Interface: General impression of the interface style. Interactive GUI = GUI as in contemporary user-friendly applications such as MS Word. Tabular = output is presented mostly as tables, possible with some limited interaction (sorting by table columns). Integrated BLAST: whether the program supports BLAST searches started from within the program. Multi-query analysis: whether multiple queries can be visualized and analysed in an integrated way. Graphical alignments: how alignments between queries and hits are graphically displayed. Query-hits = one selected query is displayed with the associated hits. Hit-Queries = one selected hit is displayed with its associated queries. High-throughput: whether the program can handle high-throughput BLAST data, i.e. BLAST results with more than 10 000 queries. Splitting and merging files: whether it is possible to split files (and possible merge them subsequently) to handle large data set. Additional features: Program features extending the information originally present in the BLAST output file. BLAST+ compatible: The latest NCBI BLAST implementation (denominated BLAST+) includes a changed BLAST output format. N/A = Not Applicable. (XLSX)