Screenshot of a typical BLAST output
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Today we had an extremely shallow introduction to the universe of bioinformatics. We had an overview of the main genetic information repositories in the U.S., Europe, and Japan (see previous post), with emphasis on the NCBI website, specially on its main database, GenBank, and one of its main tools, BLAST.
The goal for this lab is for students to get acquainted with BLAST, by "blasting" nucleic acid and protein sequences (the verb 'to blast' makes reference to using the BLAST feature in the NCBI website).
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