What it does

This tool identifies and masks out low complexity regions of a protein database (or proteins in FASTA format) by using the SEG 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 segmasker 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