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EMBL - Checking your sequence for vector contamination

Use vector scanning to check your sequence data prior to submission for potential vector contamination by running a blastn search against EMVEC, a vector database containing information on more than 2000 vectors from the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ Database SYN(thetic) division.

The results will list sequences producing significant alignments and associated information like vector name, score, alignment etc.

We suggest that you remove vector contamination from your sequence data before submitting to the database.

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