News: Unexpected BLAST problem

I am not sure I've seen it here.

It’s significant for all researchers who use console BLAST with the key -max-target-seqs

See the paper below for details.

https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/bioinformatics/bty833/5106166?redirectedFrom=fulltext

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updated 3.2 years ago by Ram

• written 7.9 years ago by natasha.sernova

Hello natasha.sernova!

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written 7.9 years ago by Pierre Lindenbaum

Yes, that's right. Sorry, it was my mistake! I didn't notice the original post.

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written 7.9 years ago by natasha.sernova

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