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Table 3 Galaxy datatypes used or defined

From: NCBI BLAST+ integrated into Galaxy

Galaxy datatype

Type

Description

tabular

Built-in

Tab-separated plain text table, used as default BLAST+ output

text

Built-in

Plain text, used for human-readable BLAST+ output

html

Built-in

Webpage, used for human-readable BLAST+ output with hyperlinks

blastxml

Add-on

BLAST XML output

blastdbn

Add-on

BLAST database of nucleotide sequences, e.g., for BLASTN

blastdbp

Add-on

BLAST database of protein sequences, e.g., for BLASTP

blastdbd

Add-on

BLAST database of protein domain PSSMs, e.g., for RPS-BLAST

maskinfo-asn1

Add-on

BLAST masking information files as text ASN.1

maskinfo-asn1-binary

Add-on

BLAST masking information files as binary ASN.1

  1. Each row lists a separate Galaxy datatype, either available from the Galaxy Tool Shed [9] or already built into Galaxy