# HOW TO EDIT THIS FILE: # The "handy ruler" below makes it easier to edit a package description. # Line up the first '|' above the ':' following the base package name, and # the '|' on the right side marks the last column you can put a character in. # You must make exactly 11 lines for the formatting to be correct. It's also # customary to leave one space after the ':' except on otherwise blank lines. |-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------| ncbi-blast: ncbi-blast (BLAST: Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) ncbi-blast: ncbi-blast: The Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) finds regions of ncbi-blast: local similarity between sequences. The program compares nucleotide ncbi-blast: or protein sequences to sequence databases and calculates the ncbi-blast: statistical significance of matches. BLAST can be used to infer ncbi-blast: functional and evolutionary relationships between sequences as well ncbi-blast: as help identify members of gene families. ncbi-blast: ncbi-blast: Home: http://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ ncbi-blast: