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Add blastn as a chrome search engine
This allows you to use simple blast search from your chrome location bar. eg. type "bn AGGTTGTATAGTTTGGGGCTCT"
Right-click in the chrome location bar, select "Edit Search Engines"
Scroll to the bottom
- Enter a name, say "blastn"
- Enter a keyword, say "bn"
- Cut-and-paste the snippit below into the URL
https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi?QUERY=%s&db=nucleotide&QUERY_FROM=&QUERY_TO=&QUERYFILE=&GENETIC_CODE=1&JOB_TITLE=&SUBJECTS=&stype=nucleotide&SUBJECTS_FROM=&SUBJECTS_TO=&SUBJECTFILE=&DBTYPE=gc&DATABASE=nr&EQ_MENU=&NUM_ORG=1&EQ_TEXT=&BLAST_PROGRAMS=megaBlast&PHI_PATTERN=&MAX_NUM_SEQ=100&SHORT_QUERY_ADJUST=on&EXPECT=10&WORD_SIZE=28&HSP_RANGE_MAX=0&MATRIX_NAME=PAM30&MATCH_SCORES=1,-2&GAPCOSTS=0 0&COMPOSITION_BASED_STATISTICS=0&FILTER=L&REPEATS=5755&FILTER=m&TEMPLATE_LENGTH=0&TEMPLATE_TYPE=0&PSSM=&I_THRESH=&DI_THRESH=&PSI_PSEUDOCOUNT=&SHOW_OVERVIEW=true&SHOW_LINKOUT=true&GET_SEQUENCE=true&FORMAT_OBJECT=Alignment&FORMAT_TYPE=HTML&ALIGNMENT_VIEW=Pairwise&MASK_CHAR=2&MASK_COLOR=1&DESCRIPTIONS=100&ALIGNMENTS=100&LINE_LENGTH=60&NEW_VIEW=false&OLD_BLAST=false&OLD_VIEW=false&NCBI_GI=false&SHOW_CDS_FEATURE=false&NUM_OVERVIEW=100&FORMAT_EQ_TEXT=&FORMAT_ORGANISM=&EXPECT_LOW=&EXPECT_HIGH=&PERC_IDENT_LOW=&PERC_IDENT_HIGH=&QUERY_INDEX=&FORMAT_NUM_ORG=1&CONFIG_DESCR=2,3,4,5,6,7,8&CLIENT=web&SERVICE=plain&CMD=request&PAGE=MegaBlast&PROGRAM=blastn&MEGABLAST=on&RUN_PSIBLAST=&WWW_BLAST_TYPE=&TWO_HITS=&DEFAULT_PROG=megaBlast&DB_DISPLAY_NAME=&ORG_DBS=&SHOW_ORGANISMS=&DBTAXID=&SAVED_PSSM=&SELECTED_PROG_TYPE=megaBlast&SAVED_SEARCH=true&BLAST_SPEC=&MIXED_DATABASE=&QUERY_BELIEVE_DEFLINE=&DB_DIR_PREFIX=&USER_DATABASE=&USER_WORD_SIZE=&USER_MATCH_SCORES=&USER_FORMAT_DEFAULTS=&NO_COMMON=&NUM_DIFFS=0&NUM_OPTS_DIFFS=0&UNIQ_DEFAULTS_NAME=A_SearchDefaults_1X2VX0_1PSg_dtRSB3Oy3vD_GTWlT_196CR6&PAGE_TYPE=BlastSearch&USER_DEFAULT_PROG_TYPE=megaBlast&USER_DEFAULT_MATCH_SCORES=0
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