What is and Why InstaSeq?
Ø InstaSeq performs a search on the World-Wide-Web,
o Not limited by finite databases, domains or servers…
Ø You can actually enter a blunt (information-less) sequence data to search the World-Wide-Web...
o A unique and one of its kind ‘search tool’ to do so
Ø Success rate of document retrieval is vastly higher (> 75%) than a regular WWW search (barely above 0%)
Ø Among searches returning any results, success rate of ‘relevant’ documents is again vastly higher
o High possibility of locating documents other than sequence data e.g. other flat files like patent applications, personally hosted documents, presentations…
Ø More suited for finding instant information about any plain piece of nucleotide or peptide sequence
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Use of the power and speed of Google™ search as backend.
Why not BLAST or other sequence alignment methods…
Ø BLAST is complete and comprehensive to which a user ultimately returns to perform an exhaustive similarity search, InstaSeq is a QuickNCrude step before performing detailed sequence analysis
Ø Questions that are answered…
o BLAST and other sequence alignment methods answer 'how similar is my unkown/known sequence to other records in the existing databases?';
o InstaSeq instantly answers 'Can I find any information about my unknown sequence at all?'