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 d...

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Autores principales: Pertsemlidis, Alexander, Fondon, John W
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2001
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Tutorial
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC138974/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11597340
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-1389742003-03-03 Having a BLAST with bioinformatics (and avoiding BLASTphemy) Pertsemlidis, Alexander Fondon, John W Genome Biol Tutorial 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. BioMed Central 2001 2001-09-27 /pmc/articles/PMC138974/ /pubmed/11597340 Text en Copyright © 2001 BioMed Central Ltd
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title_short Having a BLAST with bioinformatics (and avoiding BLASTphemy)
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC138974/
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