Basic Local Alignment Search Tool

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:software
gptkbp:abbreviation gptkb:BLAST
gptkbp:application genomics
molecular biology
bioinformatics
gptkbp:citation over 100,000
Altschul SF, Gish W, Miller W, Myers EW, Lipman DJ. Basic local alignment search tool. J Mol Biol. 1990 Oct 5;215(3):403-10.
gptkbp:database gptkb:PDB
gptkb:RefSeq
gptkb:GenBank
gptkb:Swiss-Prot
gptkbp:developer gptkb:Eugene_Myers
gptkb:Stephen_Altschul
gptkb:Warren_Gish
gptkb:Webb_Miller
gptkb:David_Lipman
gptkb:National_Center_for_Biotechnology_Information
gptkbp:firstReleased 1990
gptkbp:hasFeature database search
local alignment
statistical significance estimation
multiple sequence alignment (via related tools)
gptkbp:hasVersion gptkb:BLASTN
gptkb:BLASTP
gptkb:BLASTX
gptkb:TBLASTN
gptkb:TBLASTX
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Basic Local Alignment Search Tool
gptkbp:input nucleotide sequences
protein sequences
gptkbp:license public domain
gptkbp:mainFunction sequence alignment
sequence similarity search
gptkbp:managementInterface gptkb:NCBI_BLAST_web_server
gptkbp:output sequence alignments
E-value
alignment score
gptkbp:platform cross-platform
gptkbp:programmingLanguage C
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Smith-Waterman_algorithm
gptkb:FASTA
sequence alignment algorithms
gptkbp:repository https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi
gptkbp:supportsAlgorithm gptkb:algorithm
gptkbp:usedBy researchers worldwide
gptkbp:usedFor comparative genomics
gene annotation
phylogenetic analysis
identifying homologous sequences
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:BLAST
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5