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BLAST

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Resource Description

"The Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) finds regions of local similarity between sequences. The program compares nucleotide or protein sequences to sequence databases and calculates the statistical significance of matches. BLAST can be used to infer functional and evolutionary relationships between sequences as well as help identify members of gene families."
Resource Description

iNquiry bioinformatics software suite.
Manufacturer

National Center for Biotechnology Information
Used by

COBRE Bioinformatics Facility
Operating System

Mac OS X
Data Input

DNA sequence data
Software purpose

Sequence analysis objective
Website(s)

http://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi?CMD=Web&PAGE_TYPE=BlastHome
Related Technique

Sequencing
Software license

Open source software license

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