SequenceServer BLAST New Developments

2023-10

We’ve released SequenceServer 2.2.0! It’s faster. It’s more stable. It’s more flexible.
Check the details.

2023-10

We’ve launched a referral scheme! Help your colleagues and support continued improvements to your favorite BLAST interface.
Earn up to $400 per colleague or team that signs up.

2023-09 Historical overview of BLAST searches and optional logging and tracking usage through detailed audit trails

2023-09 Setting Up and Running a Custom BLAST Server: technical & logistical considerations

2023-08 Updates, fixes, and improvements in SequenceServer BLAST 2.1 - release notes

2023-08

SequenceServer 2.1 is released. Many new features and improvements.
Check the full SequenceServer BLAST release notes.

2023-05 Disentangling homology, orthology, paralogy and similarity with BLAST

2023-05 Metabarcoding to identify organisms from environmental DNA (eDNA) with BLAST

2023-04 How BLAST E-values are calculated and what they mean

2023-03 Identifying gene sequences in a new genome assembly using BLAST

2023-01 Check PCR primer specificity using BLAST but without primer blast

2022-12

SequenceServer has been cited 200 times 🍾 🎉.

2022-05

MSc students Carlo & Diego present updates to SequenceServer at ISB-Cambridge.

2022-03

Our new community support forum includes old discussions from our former mailing list.

2022-01

SequenceServer 2.0 is stable and is installed by default.

2021-11 Using FASTQ format sequence reads to run BLAST searches

2021-10 BLAST in the cloud

2021-10 Point and click BLAST server configuration

2021-10 Understanding and interpreting BLAST alignments is easier with visualizations

2021-10

Overview of BLAST result visualization approaches in SequenceServer 2.0.

2021-07 Exploring the methods of sequence searching with SequenceServer BLAST

2021-05

We have launched SequenceServer Cloud - so that all can run fast BLAST searches on our servers.

2020-05

SequenceServer now has more than 100 direct citations.

2020-03

Updated SequenceServer 1.0 to work with BLAST+ 2.10.0.

2020-03

Announcing candidate release of SequenceServer 2.0 - new visualizations, ability to share results page, and more.

2019-08

Our paper describing SequenceServer is now out in Molecular Biology & Evolution.

2019-07

Presented SequenceServer 2.0 (beta) at BOSC-ISMB/ECCB 2019 [view poster].

2018-06

We have been releasing beta releases of a fundamental rewrite of Sequenceserver that incorporate a large number of new features including multiple visualisations that help to understand BLAST results. Details on how to beta test the new version are given here in the support forum.

2017-06

SequenceServer 1.0.10 & 1.0.11 - important bug fix (1.0.10) and update automated docker builds (1.0.11).

2016-11

SequenceServer 1.0.9 - important bug fix.

2016-04

Hiten Chowdhary joins the team to extend and improve visualisation of BLAST results in SequenceServer as part of Google Summer of Code (GSoC) with Open Genome Informatics.

2016-03

Expanded, updated, and improved documentation to cover common scenarios.

2016-03

One-line setup with Docker - only need path to database sequences.

2016-03

SequenceServer 1.0.8 - bug fixes and improved Apache integration.

2016-02

SequenceServer 1.0.6 & 1.0.7

2016-02

SequenceServer cited in over 20 publications and downloaded over 34,000 times from RubyGems.

2015-11

SequenceServer 1.0.5 - fixes issues on Ruby 1.8.7, minor enhancement.

2015-11

bioRxiv preprint - Sequenceserver: a modern graphical user interface for custom BLAST databases.

2015-05

SequenceServer 1.0.3 - critical bug fix, ability to embed in iframe.

2015-05

SequenceServer 1.0.4 - taxonomy data in tabular output, other fixes and enhancements to the HTML report.

2015-03

SequenceServer 1.0.0 - completely new user interface, assistive setup and tons of new features.

2015-03

SequenceServer 1.0.1 - minor enhancement.

2015-03

SequenceServer 1.0.2 - installation and UI enhancements.

2015-02

SequenceServer 1.0.0 pre-release. Entirely new user interface and tons of new features.

2013-01

Development ongoing (check the github log or mailing list; contributors, contributions & citations always welcome!

2012-12

Learn more or get help on SequenceServer’s community discussion forum.

2012-08

SequenceServer cited: Elphick MR (2012) The Protein Precursors of Peptides That Affect the Mechanics of Connective Tissue and/or Muscle in the Echinoderm Apostichopus japonicus. PLoS ONE.

2012-06

SequenceServer 0.8.0 with loads of interface improvements released: automagic BLAST method selection, index for multi-query BLAST, sequence type feedback, to name a few.

2011-12

SequenceServer needs your help. Contribute to a useful real world Bioinformatics project by squashing some bugs or improving features. Great opportunity for CS or Webdesign students interested in Bioinformatics or Usability. In particular, our twitter bootstrap CSS interface has potential. Please get in touch.

2011-07

Bugs being resolved & improvements being made. Check the GitHub page for recent activity.

2011-06

SequenceServer can use Rack & Passenger to integrate existing Apache web servers.

2011-06

SequenceServer is now beta1.

2011-02

SequenceServer was deployed on the Fourmidable ant genome database simultaneously with the publication of three ant genomes.

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