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BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) is a set of sequence similarity search programs.
Giving a query sequence (nucelotide or protein), BLAST searches a user specified database
for similar sequences.
| Query |
Database |
Blast Program |
Note |
| nucleotide |
nucleotide |
blastn |
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| protein |
protein |
blastp |
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| protein |
protein |
psi- and phi-blastp |
increased sensitivity |
| nucleotide |
protein |
blastx |
query translated into protein |
| nucleotide |
nucleotide database tranlated |
tblastx |
query translated into protein |
| protein |
nucleotide database tranlated |
tblastn |
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Blast web server can be found at
NCBI BLAST (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST/).
Detailed instructions on how to use BLAST can be found at the NCBI site.
If you prefer results returned to you by email, you may use
Wu-Blast server at European Bioinformatics Institute (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/blast2/).
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