VIVEK AT

VIVEK AT

PhD student @ National Institute of Plant Genome Research

A Crash Course in BLAST Searching

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Simple BLAST searching is pretty straightforward to many of us. Just plug in your sequence, select the species genome, and hit search! But have you ever wondered what it takes to run a BLAST query using these mammoth-sized (no pun intended!) sequence databases? BLAST searching can produce dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of candidate alignments.…

https://bitesizebio.com/37866/crash-course-blast-searching/

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