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BLAST algorithm

algorithm in bioinformatics that finds regions of local similarity between molecular sequences
Place search_algorithm Q67567059

Facts

7 properties
Instance of
search algorithm
Inception
1990[7]
Author
Stephen Altschul, Warren Gish, Webb Miller, Eugene Myers, David J. Lipman[2][3][4][5][6]
Facet of
bioinformatics[8]
Computes solution to
local alignment[10]
Different from
BLAST[9]
Imported from
wholeness_audit_2026-05-02
🏷️ Also known as
en BLAST algorithm de BLAST-Algorithmus
🔖 Identifiers · 2
BabelNet ID
02992728n
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/11bc6srk8z

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Summary

BLAST algorithm is a search algorithm[1].

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  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . Basic local alignment search tool. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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