MineBlast: a literature presentation service supporting protein annotation by data mining of BLAST results

Bioinformatics. 2005 Aug 15;21(16):3450-1. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bti528. Epub 2005 Jun 7.

Abstract

MineBlast is a web service for literature search and presentation based on data-mining results received from UniProt. Users can submit a simple list of protein sequences via a web-based interface. MineBlast performs a BLASTP search in UniProt to identify names and synonyms based on homologous proteins and subsequently queries PubMed, using combined search terms inorder to find and present relevant literature.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Database Management Systems
  • Databases, Protein*
  • Documentation / methods*
  • Information Storage and Retrieval / methods*
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Proteins / chemistry*
  • Proteins / classification*
  • Proteins / genetics
  • PubMed*
  • Sequence Analysis, Protein / methods*
  • Software*
  • Vocabulary, Controlled

Substances

  • Proteins