Blast

BLAST (acronym of local BASIC alignment search tool ) is a algorithm used in Bio-data processing making it possible to find the areas similar between two or several sequences of Nucléotide S or amino-acid. This program makes it possible to calculate significantly the percentages of similarity (sometimes wrongly qualified " percentages of homologie") between the sequences by comparing them with data banks.

BLAST is used to find relations functional or evolutionary between the sequences and can help to identify the members of the same family of genes.

History

This program was developed by Stephen Altschul, Warren Gish and David Lipman with the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). The published original publication in October 1990, local BASIC alignment search tool , was quoted more: 20000 times, which does of it one the most quoted of in the scientific world.

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