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Friday, 15 May 2015

BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool)


          The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is part of the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), a branch of the National Institutes of Health. The NCBI is located in Bethesda, Maryland and was founded in 1988 through legislation sponsored by Senator Claude Pepper.
          The NCBI houses a series of databases relevant to biotechnology and biomedicine. Major databases include GenBank for DNA sequences and PubMed, a bibliographic database for the biomedical literature. Other databases include the NCBI Epigenomics database. All these databases are available online through the Entrez search engine.

          One of the application including is Basic Local Alignment Search Tool also known as BLAST. People can get accessed to the application easily. 


          You also can be accessed to the genomic BLAST page, just enter the subject you want in example by entering 'Mouse'. 


        The result for the mouse will be showed. Continue with the next step to own the best information.
















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