Tutorial Details

Introduction to Similarity Searching Using BLAST

Date: Thursday, April 12, 2007, 10:30 am - 12 noon
Location: Room 405 Walter
Instructor(s): Carlos Sosa, IBM and Zheng Jin Tu, Supercomputing Institute

BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) is a set of similarity search programs designed to compare nucleotide or protein sequences to sequence databases and calculate the statistical significance of matches. It can be used to infer functional and evolutionary relationships between sequences as well as to help identify members of gene families.

During this tutorial, participants will learn the following:

The basic principle of BLAST
Query and databases
Search strategies and result intepretation
Perform BLAST search at NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information)
NetBLAST and Standalone BLAST
BLAST search result parsing

Level: Introductory
Prerequisites: Basic Biology

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