BLAST

The Resource BLAST
Label
BLAST
Statement of responsibility
Ian Korf, Mark Yandell, and Joseph Bedell ; [foreword by Stephen Altschul]
Title variation
Basic Local Alignment Search Tool
Creator
Contributor
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
Sequence similarity is a powerful tool for discovering biological function. Just as the ancient Greeks used comparative anatomy to understand the human body and linguists used the Rosetta stone to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs, today we can use comparative sequence analysis to understand genomes. BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool), is a sophisticated software package for rapid searching of nucleotide and protein databases. It is one of the most important software packages used in sequence analysis and bioinformatics. Most users of BLAST, however, seldom move beyond the program's defaul
Member of
Cataloging source
SCPER
Dewey number
572.8/0285/536
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
QH324.2
LC item number
.K67 2003
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
NLM call number
W 26.55.S6
NLM item number
K67 2003

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Context of BLAST

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