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. 2017 Jun 22;5:e3486. doi: 10.7717/peerj.3486

Figure 1. The workflow of DCBLAST.

Figure 1

Sequence query involves submission of a single FASTA file containing multiple sequences. The sequences are then subdivided into multiple sequence query FASTA files to achieve load balancing across multiple computer nodes. After BLAST/BLAST+ searching has been completed, the results from each search are merged into a single output file.