Seek & Blastn Standard Operating Procedure v1

Seek & Blastn is a semi-automated tool that automatically extracts gene identifiers and nucleotide sequences using named entity recognition techniques. The sentence containing each sequence is automatically analyzed to assign a claimed status (targeting or nontargeting) that is compared with the most likely status according to blastn analysis using the human genomic + transcript database. Subsequently, this tool can be used to identify nucleotide sequence reagent errors in the published or forthcoming scientific literature. The Seek & Blastn tool was developed by Cyril Labbe from the University of Grenoble Alpes, The National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Grenoble, France.