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Basic Local Alignment Search Tool BLAST finds regions of similarity between biological sequences. The program compares nucleotide or protein sequences to sequence databases and calculates the statistical significance. Learn more
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.

Starting late September 2024 all non-interactive WebBLAST and PrimerBLAST searches of ``nt`` will

Tue, 24 Sep 2024
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