BLAST

(noun)

In bioinformatics, Basic Local Alignment Search Tool, or BLAST, is an algorithm for comparing primary biological sequence information, such as the amino-acid sequences of different proteins or the nucleotides of DNA sequences.

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Examples of BLAST in the following topics:

  • Plant Pathogens

    • Magnaporthe grisea (causal agent of blast of rice and gray leaf spot in turfgrasses)

  • Annotating Genomes

    • The basic level of annotation is using BLAST for finding similarities, and then annotating genomes based on that.