The beauty of this program is that you can customize this program for both high throughput and very specialized complex analyses. Of course, the speed of the computations is limited by your computer hardware.

For example, a group of DNA fragments can be analyzed by performing a local BLAST search with the yeast database on your server and an Internet BLAST search with another database on the NCBI website. At the same time, you could create primers from these fragments, varying the conditions for PCR and testing the potential candidates against a database. If a researcher wanted to test several different approaches for analyzing a sequence, they all could be run simultaneously and compared automatically.

Using simple drag-and-drop actions with your computer mouse, you can link any number of DNASpace modules in a linear or branching workflow. You can also set parameters for filtering data at each step in the protocol, so that only the results that meet your criteria continue to the next module.

By repeating the same module in series and successively narrowing the criteria, you can automate the decision-making process and refine your data to achieve the desired results. This gives the researcher the powerful combination of high throughput and selectivity that can save time and improve efficiency.

Also, since DNASpace uses a modular approach, you can truly customize your bioinformatics tasks by creating your own modules in Perl script or any programming language. Or, we can program a custom module for you.

DNASpace has wizard options that provide an interactive dialog between the researcher and the program. After the user answers some questions on the objectives of the analysis, DNASpace can automatically create an analysis workflow with the appropriate settings.

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