NCBI BLAST Graphical Summary using HTML/CSS
This is a simple tutorial for designing a webpage for displaying the graphical summary of biological sequence alignment similar to the output of the NCBI BLAST+ program using HTML and CSS languages. In this tutorial, I have given few example hits (in bars) that match all range of bit scores (mentioned by color key). NCBI BLAST Graphical Summary NCBI BLAST is a most popular bioinformatics framework for finding local similarity between two or more biological sequences. It addresses a fundamental problem in bioinformatics research. The heuristic algorithm it uses is much faster than other approaches, such as calculating an optimal alignment. This emphasis on speed is vital to making the algorithm practical on the huge genome databases currently available, although subsequent algorithms can be even faster. In NCBI BLAST, the graphic is an overview of the database sequences aligned to the query sequence. These are represented horizontal bars colored coded by score and showing the ex...