• June 3, 2011: the application of genBlastG has been published in Bioinformatics.
• December 30, 2010: genBlast Web Server Version 0.2 is released. More genomes added to the database: 4 Drosophila genomes, 6 Plasmodium genomes, and S. cerevisiae genome.
• August 24, 2009: genBlast Web Server Version 0.1 is released. This is a test release. Please send your comments to Jack Chen.
• July 25, 2009: Jeffrey Chu presented a talk entitiled "OrthoCluster and genBlast" at the "Genomics and Evolution" Workshop at the 17^th International C. elegans meeting in Los Angeles.
• July 25, 2009: Jeffrey Chu presented a poster entitled "Reannotating the C. elegans genome using genBlastG, a new homology-based gene finder" at the 17^th International C. elegans meeting in Los Angeles.
• January 1, 2009: A manuscript entitled "genBlastA: enabling BLAST to identify homologous gene sequences." is published in Genome Research.

       genBlast is a program suite, consisting of two programs: genBlastA and genBlastG. genBlastA parses local alignments, or high-scoring segment pairs (HSPs) produced by local sequence alignment programs such as BLAST and WU-BLAST and identify groups of HSPs. Each HSP group represent a putative gene that is homologous to the query protein (gene). genBlastG is a fast homology-based gene finder. It builds on genBlastA. In particular, it takes genBlastA output as input and define gene models baesd on the HSP group. The development of genBlast programs is supported by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grants, a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR) Establishment Grant, and Simon Fraser University Community Trust Endowment Fund (CTEF).

• Cite genBlastG: She et al., genBlastG: extending BLAST to be a high performance gene finder, 2011, Bioinformatics.
• Cite genBlastA: She et al., genBlastA: enabling BLAST to identify homologous gene sequences, 2009, Genome Research.