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BLAST+: architecture and applications

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Bioinformatics, December 2009
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
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  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
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3 news outlets
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2 blogs
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2 policy sources
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6 X users
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4 Wikipedia pages
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Title
BLAST+: architecture and applications
Published in
BMC Bioinformatics, December 2009
DOI 10.1186/1471-2105-10-421
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Authors

Christiam Camacho, George Coulouris, Vahram Avagyan, Ning Ma, Jason Papadopoulos, Kevin Bealer, Thomas L Madden

Abstract

Sequence similarity searching is a very important bioinformatics task. While Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) outperforms exact methods through its use of heuristics, the speed of the current BLAST software is suboptimal for very long queries or database sequences. There are also some shortcomings in the user-interface of the current command-line applications.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 50 <1%
Germany 31 <1%
United Kingdom 20 <1%
Brazil 19 <1%
France 14 <1%
Spain 12 <1%
Australia 8 <1%
Denmark 8 <1%
Mexico 8 <1%
Other 77 1%
Unknown 6999 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 1640 23%
Researcher 1126 16%
Student > Master 964 13%
Student > Bachelor 790 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 383 5%
Other 857 12%
Unknown 1486 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2397 33%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1780 25%
Immunology and Microbiology 254 4%
Environmental Science 209 3%
Computer Science 190 3%
Other 686 9%
Unknown 1730 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 67. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 December 2023.
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#603,731
of 24,411,829 outputs
Outputs from BMC Bioinformatics
#30
of 7,530 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,035
of 172,020 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Bioinformatics
#1
of 58 outputs
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