BLAST
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. BL...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Sebastopol, CA
O'Reilly & Associates
2003
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
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| Collection: | O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| 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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| Item Description: | "An essential guide to the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool"--Cover |
| Physical Description: | xviii, 339 pages illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9781449358112 |