CS 5124: Algorithms in Bioinformatics

Fall Semester, 2004
Resourses on BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool)

Resources at NCBI

• NCBI references for BLAST and PSI-BLAST

• BLAST searching in NCBI databases

• The NCBI Software Development Toolkit includes source code for tools developed at NCBI, including source code for their version of BLAST.

Papers on BLAST, Chronologically

1. S. F. Altschul, W. Gish, W. Miller, E. W. Myers, and D. J. Lipman (1990)
   Basic local alignment search tool
   Journal of Molecular Biology 215, pp.403-410.

2. S. F. Altschul, T. L. Madden, A. A. Schaffer, J. Zhang, Z. Zhang, W. Miller, and D. J. Lipman (1997)
   Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: a new generation of protein database search programs
   Nucleic Acids Research 25, pp.3389-3402.

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