May 18th webinar: Using VDB BLAST Clients to Search Whole Genome Shotgun Contigs (WGS) and Transcriptome Shotgun Assembly (TSA) Data at the NCBI

On May 18th, NCBI will present a webinar that will show attendees how to use the standalone VDB blast programs (blastn_vdb and tblastn_vdb), which are part of the SRA Toolkit, as clients to search whole genome shotgun contigs (WGS) and Transcriptome Shotgun Assembly (TSA) data. WGS, which are partially assembled genome sequences, and TSA, which are transcripts assembled from next-gen RNA-Seq data, are two of the fastest growing categories of sequence data available for BLAST searching.
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