[galaxy-user] Question on megablast databases

Dear galaxy members, I have a question on the databases used in megablast module from galaxy. There are four db options to blast against with - 1. htgs 28-Jan-2013 2. nt 28-Jan-2013 3. wgs 28-Jan-2013 4. phiX174 Is there any further information to guide which database

Re: [galaxy-user] Question on megablast databases

Hi Kathryn, These first three are three different types of sequence databases available from GenBank The last is a genome assembly for the phiX174 genome. Information about all can be found here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/ There are many uses, one example is covered in our