BLAST
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BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) is a set of similarity search programs designed to explore all of the available sequence databases.
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Software
- Blixem - Blixem, which stands for "BLast matches In an X-windows Embedded Multiple alignment", is an interactive browser of pairwise BLAST matches that have been stacked up in a "master-slave" multiple alignment.
- DBWatcher - DBWatcher is a program handling periodic BLAST searches to find similarities to your own sequences.
- mpiBLAST - mpiBLAST is a parallel implementation of NCBI-BLAST that uses database segmentation. It achieves a super-linear speedup in some cases.
- MSPcrunch - a BLAST enhancement filter
- NCBI-BLAST - US NCBI implementation
- WU-BLAST - Washington U. implementation
