Editing CrocoBLAST:Technical details (section)

=Limitations=

As mentioned above, all results are provided in the typical BLAST output, which is a text file. CrocoBLAST does not currently offer facilities for graphical visualization and analysis of the BLAST results, partly due to the fact that it targets big data, and partly because many great tools are already available for such purposes. We recommend that you obtain the alignments using CrocoBLAST, and then select the best alignments to be viewed and analyzed in some specialized software (e.g., [http://ab.inf.uni-tuebingen.de/software/megan6/ MEGAN]).

CrocoBLAST currently does not implement a parallelization of the BLAST calculation via the network. This aspect may be addressed in a future version of CrocoBLAST, once we have gathered sufficient information regarding the most common use case for network-distributed calculations. Your feedback is greatly valued.

Finally, while CrocoBLAST will run on most versions of Windows (XP or newer) and Linux, CrocoBLAST will not run on OS X. It is unlikely that this should change in the immediate future, but do check back with us just in case.