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BioBam's Blast2Go

Oct 14, 2016

BioBam has released version 4 of Blast2Go, its bioinformatics solution for functional analysis of transcriptomics datasets. This release offers access to proprietary and third-party algorithms for tasks such as gene prediction, functional characterization, and statistical analysis of gene sets. It also include several new resources that help developers create apps for the Blast2Go platform.

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