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BLAST Searches from C#/.NET?

Can anyone recommend a library for performing BLAST searches from a C#/.NET application? Perl, Ruby, Python, and Java have libraries that support this type of functionality, but I'm having a hard time finding one for .NET. Thanks! ...

Fast Sequence Alignment on Unicode Strings

I want to run something like the BLAST algorithm to query a large database of unicode strings. Most of the alignment software like BLAST expects nucleotide or protein strings as input. But my input could potentially contain any unicode character. Is anyone aware of a piece of software that will let me do this? The scoring matrix coul...

Python implementation of BLAST alignment algorithm?

Is anyone aware of a pure python implementation of BLAST alignment? I am trying to study this algorithm... ...

iPhone programming: how to use URL's API (e.g. BLAST)

Dear All, I am new to iPhone programming and would like to be able to use the BLAST (is a bioinformatics server) URL's API from the iPhone. I would like to write a very simple application that queries the BLAST server and make some query. I have found the following I have found the following documentation on BLAST (http://www.ncbi.nlm...

Obtaining blastn databases programatically

In the Nucleotide BLAST search page is there a way to obtain programatically the databases listed in the "Choose Search Set" box? Maybe in XML format? (it doesn't matter the programming language used) Thanks in advance ...