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Mar 24, 2000
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Patrick Durand at the US National Center for Biotechnology Information in Bethesda, Md., has upgraded Octopus, a graphical Blast/Fasta parser, to release 4.1. The new version uses a full HCA viewer, a network engine able to communicate with Q-Blast, NCBI’s new Blast system, and direct sequence downloads from Entrez. Octopus can be found at http://www.multimania.com/pdurand/HtmlDoc/software/octopus/index.html.

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