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Online Tools To "Prettify" Blast Output

Can anyone suggest an online tool, for a non-bioinformatician (not for me you understand, oh no not me), that will make BLAST output "pretty", i.e. add shading to make mismatches and so on more obvious?

Many thanks!

blast visualization
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updated by SES SES • written by Ian Ian

Do them a favour: write some code to demonstrate that parsing is more informative than "prettification" and visual inspection :)

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written by Neilfws Neilfws

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BlastViewer allows you to graphically explore BLAST results. There are also various methods for generating HTML pages, like the ones that Pierre mentioned.

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written by SES SES

No really online/dynamic.

If the result is saved as XML, you just could add a xml-stylesheet directive at the top of the XML file

[?]?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="blast2something.xsl"?[?]

and it will be transformed to whatever-you-want when the file we be opened in a web browser. (see http://lekkimworld.com/2006/06/03/apply_xslt_style_sheet_to_an_xml_document_for_browser_friendly_display.html )

Examples:

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updated by Ram Ram • written by Pierre Lindenbaum Pierre Lindenbaum

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