What it does
This tool identifies and masks out low complexity regions of a nucleotide database (or sequences in FASTA format) by using the symmetric DUST algorithm.
If you select maskinfo ASN.1 (binary or text) as output format, the output file can be used as masking data for NCBI BLAST+ makeblastdb tool.
More information about dustmasker can be found in the BLAST Command Line Applications User Manual.
References
If you use this Galaxy tool in work leading to a scientific publication please cite the following papers:
Peter J. A. Cock, John M. Chilton, Björn Grüning, James E. Johnson, Nicola Soranzo (2015). NCBI BLAST+ integrated into Galaxy. GigaScience 4:39 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13742-015-0080-7
Christiam Camacho et al. (2009). BLAST+: architecture and applications. BMC Bioinformatics 15;10:421. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-10-421
This wrapper is available to install into other Galaxy Instances via the Galaxy Tool Shed at http://toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/view/devteam/ncbi_blast_plus