1. Bioinformatics zInterdisciplinary science that involves developing and applying information technology for analyzing biological data Overview of Bioinformatics

2. BLAST zThe BLAST programs (Basic Local Alignment Search Tools) are a set of sequence comparison algorithms that are used to search international sequence databases for regions of similarity between sequences

3. BLAST http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

4. BLAST

5. Program Description blastp Compares an amino acid query sequence against a protein sequence database. blastn Compares a nucleotide query sequence against a nucleotide sequence database. blastx Compares a nucleotide query sequence translated in all reading frames against a protein sequence database. You could use this option to find potential translation products of an unknown nucleotide sequence.

6. BLAST ACATTTGCTT CTGACACAAC TGTGTTCACT AGCAACCTCA AACAGACACC ATGGTGCACC TGACTCCTGA GGAGAAGTCT GCCGTTACTG CCCTGTGGGG CAAGGTGAAC GTGGATGAAGTTGGTGGTGA GGCCCTGGGC AGGCTGCTGG TGGTCTACCC TTGGACCCAG AGGTTCTTTGAGTCCTTTGG GGATCTGTCC

7. BLAST

11. BLAST for Beginners Tutorial