| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 339 pages) : illustrations |
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"An essential guide to the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool"--Cover |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. I. Introduction -- 1. Hello BLAST -- pt. II. Theory -- 2. Biological Sequences -- 3. Sequence Alignment -- 4. Sequence Similarity -- pt. III. Practice -- 5. BLAST -- 6. Anatomy of a BLAST Report -- 7. A BLAST Statistics Tutorial -- 8. 20 Tips to Improve Your BLAST Searches -- 9. BLAST Protocols -- pt. IV. Industrial-Strength BLAST -- 10. Installation and Command-Line Tutorial -- 11. BLAST Databases -- 12. Hardware and Software Optimizations -- pt. V. BLAST Reference -- 13. NCBI-BLAST Reference -- 14. WU-BLAST Reference -- pt. VI. Appendixes -- A. NCBI Display Formats -- B. Nucleotide Scoring Schemes -- C. NCBI-BLAST Scoring Schemes -- D. blast-imager.pl -- E. blast2table.pl. |
| Summary |
Sequence similarity is a powerful tool for discovering biological function. Just as the ancient Greeks used comparative anatomy to understand the human body and linguists used the Rosetta stone to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs, today we can use comparative sequence analysis to understand genomes. BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool), is a sophisticated software package for rapid searching of nucleotide and protein databases. It is one of the most important software packages used in sequence analysis and bioinformatics. Most users of BLAST, however, seldom move beyond the program's defaul. |
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BLAST (Computer file)
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BLAST (Computer File) |
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Biology -- Data processing.
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Amino acid sequence -- Databases.
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Nucleotide sequence -- Databases.
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Database searching.
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Amino acid sequence.
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Biology.
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Amino Acid Sequence |
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Biology |
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Software |
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Medicine |
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Biologie -- Informatique. |
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Séquence des acides aminés -- Bases de données. |
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Bases de données -- Interrogation. |
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Séquence des acides aminés. |
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Biologie. |
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Logiciels. |
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online searching. |
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biology. |
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software. |
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Biology |
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Amino acid sequence |
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Biology -- Data processing |
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Database searching |
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Nucleotide sequence |
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Sequentiële analyse (statistiek) |
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Bio-informatica. |
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DNA. |
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Bioinformática. |
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Algoritmos e estruturas de dados. |
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Databases
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| Added Author |
Yandell, Mark.
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Bedell, Joseph.
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| Added Title |
Basic Local Alignment Search Tool |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Korf, Ian. BLAST. 1st ed. Sebastopol, CA : O'Reilly & Associates, 2003 0596002998 (DLC) 2004272804 (OCoLC)56560513 |
| ISBN |
9781449358112 (electronic bk.) |
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144935811X (electronic bk.) |
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