| Dates covered: |
current information |
| Recommended uses: |
Use to identify nucleotides or
protiens using a gene sequence as the search key. |
| Restrictions: |
This database is available
to all users by the National Library of Medicine and the National
Institutes of Health. |
| Description: |
BLAST (Basic Local Alignment
Search Tool) is a set of similarity search programs designed to
explore all of the available sequence databases regardless of whether
the query is protein or DNA. The BLAST programs have been designed
for speed, with a minimal sacrifice of sensitivity to distant sequence
relationships. |
| Access: |
Web access to NCBI, National Center
for Biotechnology Information.. |
- CD ROM database
-In Library Use Only
- On Campus Use Only
- free on the WWW
