BLASTA Search program.

BLAST is a service of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). A nucleotide or protein sequence sent to the BLAST server is compared against databases at the NCBI and a summary of matches is returned to the user.

The www BLAST server can be accessed through the home page of the NCBI at www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Stand-alone BLAST binaries can be obtained from the NCBI FTP site.

BlastAll may be used to perform all five flavors of blast comparison. One may obtain the blastall options by executing 'blastall -' (note the dash).

The program aligns sequence (input file) on the base prepared by program FormatDB.



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