SequenceServer
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SequenceServer
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Hopefully it's back after the weekend 🤞

But you might want to check out SequenceServer - we're a reliable and intuitive way of running NCBI BLAST (and more)

(much easier than working things in the command-line!)
March 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Hopefully back after the weekend 🤞

In the meantime, SequenceServer is a reliable alternative to run NCBI BLAST (and more).
March 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Hopefully NCBI is back on Monday.

But FYI - SequenceServer is much easier to run than local BLAST.

(we created it 10+ years ago to BLAST faster, get prettier graphs, and improve collaboration; it now does a ton of other things too)
March 2, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Not really - our infrastructure is completely independent of NCBI/NIH.

But some analyses do use copies of NCBI-consolidated data.

If, for example, NIH were to stop updating NR, then European/Japanese/Chinese sister orgs would need to take the lead.
But e.g., SwissProt is made... in Switzerland
March 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Hopefully it's just a temporary hiccup 🤞

FYI, our SequenceServer tool provides a reliable alternative way to run NCBI BLAST (and more).

(we created it 10+ years ago to BLAST unpublished data, collaborate better, and get genomics done faster; it does a bunch more now too)
March 2, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Hopefully NCBI services will be back after the weekend 🤞

In the meantime, SequenceServer reliably enables you to run NCBI BLAST (and do much more) fast, anytime, and without queues.
March 2, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Hopefully NCBI services will be back after the weekend 🤞

In the meantime, SequenceServer reliably enables you to run NCBI BLAST (and do much more) fast, anytime, and without queues.

(we created it 10+ years ago to blast fast, and collaborate and intepret better)
March 2, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Frustrating.
hopefully NIH will recover after the weekend 🤞

As a backup, our sequenceserver.com lets you run NCBI BLAST anytime - many PIs have an instance for their team.

(we created it to BLAST unpublished data, get prettier graphics that help interpretation, and improve collaboration)
Custom servers for BLAST search for your team and data
Run BLAST and interpret your custom data. Flexible BLAST visualization and output formats so you can focus on the science. Secure, private, and fast.
sequenceserver.com
March 2, 2025 at 7:38 AM
You might also want to have a look at our BLAST interface.
It's designed to be more intuitive
March 1, 2025 at 11:13 PM
We're hoping the NCBI/NIH will be able to recover.

As a failsafe or backup, our sequenceserver.com lets you BLAST anything you want (and does it fast and with beautiful graphics that make interpretation easier).
Custom servers for BLAST search for your team and data
Run BLAST and interpret your custom data. Flexible BLAST visualization and output formats so you can focus on the science. Secure, private, and fast.
sequenceserver.com
March 1, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Beautiful!
February 15, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Hello friend!
February 15, 2025 at 4:17 PM
It happens...

As a failsafe or backup, our sequenceserver.com tool lets you BLAST anything you want (and does it fast and with beautiful graphics that make interpretation easier). It has a trackrecord 100% uptime too...
Custom servers for BLAST search for your team and data
Run BLAST and interpret your custom data. Flexible BLAST visualization and output formats so you can focus on the science. Secure, private, and fast.
sequenceserver.com
February 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
We're hoping the NCBI/NIH will be able to recover.

As a failsafe or backup, our sequenceserver.com lets you BLAST anything you want (and does it fast and with beautiful graphics that make interpretation easier).
Custom servers for BLAST search for your team and data
Run BLAST and interpret your custom data. Flexible BLAST visualization and output formats so you can focus on the science. Secure, private, and fast.
sequenceserver.com
February 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
We're hoping for the best...

But FYI sequenceserver.com is a reliable failsafe for BLAST-ing and genome browsing and more. |

(your lab or institute gets a private server to BLAST fast and with great graphics that facilitate interpretation)
February 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Hiya @spicybotrytis.bsky.social - you might like our seequenceserver.com tool. Upload any FASTA file as a database, then BLAST search with a an intuitive interface (lots of graphs that help with gene annotation issues - including the attached which shows length of query vs lengths of all hits)
February 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
We very much hope that NCBI manage to pull things together.

But FWIW, our sequenceserver.com can be a dependable fallback - it’s a paid service giving your lab a private BLAST server. It’s been a lifesaver for labs that want reliable, fast BLAST with intuitive graphics (for standard or custom dbs).
Custom servers for BLAST search for your team and data
Run BLAST and interpret your custom data. Flexible BLAST visualization and output formats so you can focus on the science. Secure, private, and fast.
sequenceserver.com
February 15, 2025 at 3:41 PM
We very much hope that NCBI manage to pull things together.

But FWIW, our sequenceserver.com can be a dependable fallback. It’s a paid service giving your lab a private BLAST server. It’s been a lifesaver for labs that want reliable, fast BLAST with intuitive graphics (for standard or custom dbs).
Custom servers for BLAST search for your team and data
Run BLAST and interpret your custom data. Flexible BLAST visualization and output formats so you can focus on the science. Secure, private, and fast.
sequenceserver.com
February 15, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I very much hope that NCBI remains unchanged.

But FYI: if you need a dependable fallback when NCBI BLAST is down, our sequenceserver.com is worth a look. It’s a paid service giving your lab a private BLAST server. It’s been a lifesaver for labs that want reliable, fast BLAST with great graphics.
February 6, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.3390/biom...

Happy BLASTing!
December 17, 2024 at 11:19 AM
Those technical hurdles while trying to answer a biological question are so frustrating.

What are you trying to do?

We created sequenceserver.com to enable researchers to focus on the biology. And >4 million metazoan COX1 sequences 🧬 are preloaded for fast point-and-click BLAST.

#genomics
Custom servers for BLAST search for your team and data
Run BLAST and interpret your custom data. Flexible BLAST visualization and output formats so you can focus on the science. Secure, private, and fast.
sequenceserver.com
December 6, 2024 at 11:00 AM
You're right - Genome analysis is hard enough as it is - no need for email obstacle courses!

SequenceServer keeps your inbox as clean as you want your DNA sequences to be. 🧬

#genomics #bioinformatics
December 6, 2024 at 10:44 AM
Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.1093/data...
And the database here: reefgenomics.org
Happy BLASTing!
December 3, 2024 at 11:07 AM