User Guide¶
The cblaster
software was written by Cameron Gilchrist with contributions from Dr. Thomas Booth and Dr. Yit-Heng Chooi.
If you find cblaster
helpful, please cite:
Cameron L.M. Gilchrist, Thomas J. Booth, Bram van Wersch, Liana van Grieken, Marnix H. Medema, Yit-Heng Chooi (2020).
cblaster: a remote search tool for rapid identification and visualisation of homologous gene clusters.
bioRxiv 2020.11.08.370601; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.11.08.370601
If you have any questions, would like to report a bug, or have any suggestion on how we could improve cblaster, please contact:
Table of Contents¶
- What is
cblaster
- Installation and Quick Start
- Pre-search configuration using the
config
module - Running a
cblaster
search using thesearch
module - Creating local sequence databases with the
makedb
module - Estimating genomic neighbourhood with the
gne
module - Retrieving hit sequences with the
extract
module - Extracting GenBank files from session files using
extract_clusters
- Plotting extracted clusters using
plot_clusters
- Using the graphical user interface (GUI)
- Miscellaneous functions