YouTube BLAST Tutorials
Presented April 19, 2017. In this webinar, you learn to use Magic-BLAST to align next-gen RNA and DNA sequencing runs to genomic and transcript sequences and to understand the options available for Magic-BLAST. Modern sequence analysis including genome annotation, expression analysis and variant calling often involves aligning next-gen sequence reads to a genome assembly or a set of full-length RNA transcripts. This task has special requirements that are not met by traditional alignment and search programs such as BLAST. NCBI now has Magic-BLAST, a specialized tool for mapping large next-generation RNA or DNA sequencing runs in a variety of formats against a whole genome or transcriptome.