BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool)

Layer 3 — Biologyin the Omics And Bioinformatics subtree

Altschul-Gish-Miller-Myers-Lipman 1990 heuristic sequence-similarity search. Seeds high-scoring words, extends ungapped, reports statistical significance (E-value). Most cited paper in biology.

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