Yass (software)

{{Short description|Bioinformatics software}}

{{Other uses|Yass (disambiguation){{!}}Yass}}

{{Infobox Software|name=YASS|latest_release_version=1.14|operating_system=Linux, Mac, MS-Windows|genre=Bioinformatics tool|licence=GPLv2 CeCILL|website=[https://bioinfo.univ-lille.fr/yass/ https://bioinfo.univ-lille.fr/yass/]}}

YASS (Yet Another Similarity Searcher){{cite journal |author=Noe L., Kucherov. G.|title=YASS: enhancing the sensitivity of DNA similarity search |journal=Nucleic Acids Research |volume=33|issue=2 |pages=W540–W543 |year=2005 |doi=10.1093/nar/gki478 |pmid=15980530 |pmc=1160238}}{{cite journal |author=Noe L., Kucherov. G.|title=Improved hit criteria for DNA local alignment|journal=BMC Bioinformatics |volume=5 |year=2004 |doi=10.1186/1471-2105-5-149 |pmid=15485572 |pages=149 |pmc=526756 |doi-access=free }} is a free software,{{cite web|url=https://bioinfo.univ-lille.fr/yass/files/yass-current/README|access-date=7 April 2015|title=README}} pairwise sequence alignment software for nucleotide sequences, that is, it can search for similarities between DNA or RNA sequences. YASS accepts nucleotide sequences in either plain text or the FASTA format and the output format includes the BLAST tabular output. YASS uses several transition-constrained spaced seed k-mers, which allow considerably improved sensitivity. YASS can be used locally on a user's machine, or as SaaS on the [https://bioinfo.univ-lille.fr/yass/yass.php YASS web server], which produces a browser based dot-plot.