
Introduction
to Sequence Analysis
Checking for
vector contamination
¥ The EBI provides a vector
screening service called BLAST2_EVEC.
¥ It is based on NCBI BLAST2
and uses the latest implementation of the BLAST algorithm and a special
sequence databank known as EMVEC to check your sequences for vector
contamination.
¥ EMVEC is a sequence collection that contains complete and
fragmented sequences of vectors. The main use of this library is to provide
support to sequencing teams with the
process of removing vector sequences from their data prior to submission
to the EMBL, GenBank or DDBJ databanks.