Friday, August 27, 2010

Basic Local Alignment Search Tool

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. 
nucleotide blast  Search a nucleotide database using a nucleotide query Algorithms: blastn, megablast, discontiguous megablast
protein blast Search protein database using a protein query Algorithms: blastp, psi-blast, phi-blast
blastx Search protein database using a translated nucleotide query
tblastn Search translated nucleotide database using a protein query
tblastx Search translated nucleotide database using a translated nucleotide query

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