NCBI Blast Doesnt Publish Your DNA Sequences
“https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi?PROGRAM=blastn&PAGE_TYPE=BlastSearch&LINK_LOC=blasthome Doesn’t publish or see my dna sequences when I fill in the form on the nucleotide blast part”
Summary
NCBI’s BLAST service processes the DNA sequence you submit to perform the alignment, but it does not store or make the sequence publicly available. The privacy statements confirm that user queries are not retained or published in NCBI databases. Thus, while the system “sees” the sequence for the search, it does not publish or expose it.
Sources 58 searched
- BLAST: Basic Local Alignment Search Tool
BLAST finds regions of similarity between biological sequences. The program compares nucleotide or protein sequences to sequence databases and calculates the statistical significance.
- Frequently Asked Questions — BLASTHelp documentation - NIH
If you have submitted a sequence to GenBank and cannot find it in the “Core_nt” databases nor find it’s protein translation in the “nr” database there are two reasons. Make sure your sequence accessions where released by NCBI into the databases if they have been published.
- Nucleotide BLAST: Search nucleotide databases using a nucleotide query
Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation · Standard Nucleotide BLAST
- Privacy - BLAST® Command Line Applications User Manual - NCBI Bookshelf
Information sent back to NCBI is ... queries without any data association that might reveal the context of your research. No sequences from your queries or database are sent to the NCBI....
- NLM GenBank and SRA Data Processing - NCBI - NIH
Data are withdrawn when there are concerns about possible harms resulting from public availability of the data such as those related to national security, privacy, or lack of proper informed consent (see examples below). Withdrawn data are not publicly accessible, even by accession number.
- GenBank Overview - NCBI
See BLAST info for more information about the numerous BLAST databases. Search, link, and download sequences programatically using NCBI e-utilities. The ASN.1 and flatfile formats are available at NCBI's anonymous FTP server: ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ncbi-asn1 and ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank. The GenBank database is designed to provide and encourage access within the scientific community to the most up-to-date and comprehensive DNA sequence information.
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