BLAT---The BLAST-Like Alignment Tool

BLAT--the BLAST-like alignment tool.

Analyzing vertebrate genomes requires rapid mRNA/DNA and cross-species protein alignments. A new tool, BLAT, is more accurate and 500 times faster than popular existing tools for mRNA/DNA alignments and 50 times faster for protein alignments at sensitivity settings typically used when comparing vertebrate sequences. BLAT's speed stems from an index of all nonoverlapping K-mers in the genome. Th...

The BLAST Sequence Analysis Tool

The comparison of nucleotide or protein sequences from the same or different organisms is a very powerful tool in molecular biology. By finding similarities between sequences, scientists can infer the function of newly sequenced genes, predict new members of gene families, and explore evolutionary relationships. Now that whole genomes are being sequenced, sequence similarity searching can be us...

BLAST - an essential guide to the basic local alignment search tool

BLAST for Audio Sequences Alignment: A Fast Scalable Cover Identification Tool

Searching for similarities in largemusical databases is common for applications such as cover song identification. These methods typically use dynamic programming to align the shared musical motifs between subparts of two recordings. Such music local alignment methods are slow, as are the bioinformatics algorithms they are closely related to. We have adapted the ideas of the Basic Local Alignme...

16. The BLAST Sequence Analysis Tool

The comparison of nucleotide or protein sequences from the same or different organisms is a very powerful tool in molecular biology. By finding similarities between sequences, scientists can infer the function of newly sequenced genes, predict new members of gene families, and explore evolutionary relationships. Now that whole genomes are being sequenced, sequence similarity searching can be us...