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The Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) finds regions of local similarity
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between sequences. The program compares nucleotide or protein sequences to
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sequence databases and calculates the statistical significance of matches.
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BLAST can be used to infer functional and evolutionary relationships between
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sequences as well as help identify members of gene families.
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