Having a BLAST with bioinformatics (and avoiding BLASTphemy)

Searching for similarities between biological sequences is the principal means by which bioinformatics contributes to our understanding of biology. Of the various informatics tools developed to accomplish this task, the most widely used is BLAST, the basic local alignment search tool. This article discusses the principles, workings, applications and potential pitfalls of BLAST, focusing on the implementation developed at the National Center for Biotechnology Information.

• Publication year

  2001

• Venue

  Genome Biology

• Publication date

  2001-09-27

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Computer Science

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  DOI 10.1186/gb-2001-2-10-reviews2002PMID 11597340PMCID 138974
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