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Revision as of 14:26, 18 January 2010

BLAST - Basic Logical Alignment Search Tool

What is does:


“…finds regions of local similarity between sequences.”

“…compares nucleotide or protein sequences to sequence databases and calculates the statistical significance of matches.”

“… can be used to infer functional and evolutionary relationships between sequences as well as help identify members of gene families.”


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