A new tool has been added to Proksee:

• BLAST Formatter (Map Refinements)
  • Applies a customizable color scheme to the results from one or more BLAST comparisons based on their percent identity.
  • Sorts BLAST tracks based on how similar they are to the map genome.

Here's an example showing E. coli str. K-12 compared against five other E. coli genomes. Before formatting (top), the hits are colored based on BLAST track (i.e. the hits from a particular job are all assigned the same color). After using BLAST Formatter (bottom), the hits are colored based on percent identity.

Within the BLAST Formatter tool you can choose the percent identity cut-offs and color scheme. A graph showing the distribution of the percent identities for the current BLAST results can be used to choose informative cut-offs.