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Bioinformatics Tutorials: BLAST: Basic Local Alignment Search Tool

Access training focused on NCBI tools. Important features and common tasks will be highlighted.

Analysis Tools

BLAST Link (BLink)
Use to search protein against other protein sequences at NCBI
Concise Microbial Protein BLAST
Search within all proteins from complete microbial genomes used in the protein cluster database
Gene Expression Omnibus Nucleotide Blast
Query sequence using accession numbers, gi(s) or FASTA sequences
Genome BLAST
Compares nucleotide or protein sequence to genomic sequence databases

Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) Videos

NCBI BLAST in the Cloud
NCBI BLAST AMI at Amazon Web Services
Sequence Viewer
Configurable graphical display of sequence

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