This exercise simply asks you to visit the NCBI Web site to find
out about the BLAST program.
- BLAST is an acronym. What does it stand for?
Basic Local Alignment Search Tool
- What does the BLAST program do?
Blast takes as input either a nucleic acid seqence (consisting of
nucleotide bases) or protein sequence (consisting of amino acids) as a
query and compares the query sequence to a database of sequences
to find sequences similar to the query.
- Who are the people involved in designing the original version of
BLAST?
BLAST was written by Warren Gish, formerly of the National
Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), in
collaboration
with Stephen Altschul, Webb Miller, Eugene Myers, David
Lipman,
and David States.
Go through one BLAST tutorial. Do you encounter any problems? If
so,
write them down.
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