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Exercise 7B: BLAST
STA 4953 (Spring 2001)
Due 3/22/2001


This exercise simply asks you to visit the NCBI Web site to find out about the BLAST program.

  1. BLAST is an acronym. What does it stand for?
  2. What does the BLAST program do?
  3. Who are the people involved in designing the original version of BLAST? Go through one BLAST tutorial. Do you encounter any problems? If so, write them down.