Performing a BLAST search of the STRSeq BioProject

• NCJ Number: 304897
• Journal: Forensic Science International Genetics Supplement Series Volume: 6 Dated: December 2017 Pages: e372-e374
• Author(s): K. B. Gettings; L. A. Borsuk; P. M. Vallone
• Date Published: December 2017
• Grant Number(s): 2016-DNR-6150
• Sponsoring Agency: National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
• Corporate Author: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
• Publication Format: Article
• Publication Type: Research (Applied/Empirical)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

At the 27th ISFG meeting in Seoul, we presented STRSeq, a catalog of high-confidence sequences at forensic short tandem repeat (STR) loci targeted in commercially available sequencing assays.

 

Abstract

This project was initiated to facilitate the description of sequence-based alleles, providing a framework for communication among laboratories. The STRSeq catalog is maintained at NCBI, in the form of GenBank records organized in a BioProject hierarchy. Herein we describe a method by which a user can query this catalog using the NCBI BLAST application.  (Publisher Abstract Provided)