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BLAST

bioinformatics software
CreativeWork bioinformatics_software Q286820
BLAST
NCBI Blast · Public Domain · Wikimedia

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14 properties
Instance of
bioinformatics software
Official website
blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov[18]
Website
blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Programming language
C++, C
Has use
science, bioinformatics, multiple sequence alignment[15][16][17]
Derivative work
CS-BLAST, PSI-BLAST
Developer
Stephen Altschul, Warren Gish, Webb Miller, Eugene Myers, David J. Lipman[2][3][4][5][6]
Different from
BLAST algorithm[21]
Implementation of
BLAST algorithm
Operating system
Unix-like operating system, Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows[9][10][11][12]
Programmed in
C++, C[7][8]
Readable file format
XML BLAST Output[19]
Software version identifier
2.4.0, 2.9.0[13][14]
Writable file format
XML BLAST Output[20]
🏷️ Also known as
en B en Basic Local Alignment Search Tool en BLAST en ncbi-blast en NCBI-BLAST ar بلاست tr ncbi-blast tr Basic Local Alignment Search Tool tr NCBI-BLAST tr Temel Yerel Hizalama Arama Aracı zh BLAST zh BLAST (生物資訊學) zh 基本局部比对搜索工具 zh 基本的局部比對搜索工具
🔖 Identifiers · 6
Library of Congress authority ID
no2004036006
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/BLAST-computer-program
Exact match
www.ebi.ac.uk
Freebase ID
/m/01_qt5
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987009631483005171
Pro-Linux.de DBApp ID
5267

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Operating system 4
Linux, Microsoft Windows, macOS, Unix-like operating system
Developer 3
Eugene Myers, David J. Lipman, Stephen Altschul
Has use 3
science, bioinformatics, multiple sequence alignment
Created notable works 1
Samuel Karlin
Derivative work 1
CS-BLAST
Owns / has subsidiaries 1
National Center for Biotechnology Information
Programmed in 1
C++
← Based on 1
CS-BLAST
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Summary

BLAST is a bioinformatics software[1].

Related Entities

bioinformatics C++ Eugene Myers Linux macOS Microsoft Windows National Center for Biotechnology Information science Stephen Altschul Unix-like operating system

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  13. [14] ↑ . blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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