NCBI BLAST Portal Site
What you can do:
Find similar sequences to a query sequence from various sequence databases.
Highlights:
- Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) is a sequence similarity search program.
- The public interface of BLAST at the NCBI website has recently been reengineered to improve usability and performance.
- Key new features include simplified search forms, improved navigation, a list of recent BLAST results, saved search strategies and a documentation directory.
Keywords:
- sequence similarity analysis tool
- sequence blast tool
- sequence similarity search tool
- pairwise sequence alignment Tool
- sequence similarity searching
- SNP blast
- SNP search tool
- immunoglobin blast
- genome blast
Literature & Tutorials:
PubMed Link: BLAST: at the core of a powerful and diverse set of sequence analysis tools
Online Documentation Link: BLAST Program Selection Guide
2008 Update: NCBI BLAST: a better web interface
Online Documentation Link: BLAST Program Selection Guide
2008 Update: NCBI BLAST: a better web interface
This record last updated: 07-16-2008