The comparison of nucleotide or protein sequences from the same or different organisms is a very powerful tool in molecular biology. Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) comes in variations for use with different query sequences against different databases. 

Category

Sequence similarity search tool 

Where? How?

Login to emu. Executables are in /usr/local/share/blast_2.2.10/

Documentation

NCBI's book The blast equence analysis tool

License

Freeware.

Technical Data

• installed: Nov 11 2004 directory: /usr/local/share/blast_2.2.10/ machine: emu tested by BSR on: Linux.