BLAST: Basic Local Alignment Search Tool


Posted by Pierre-Edouard Guerin · 1 min read · Published on January 14, 2015

Published in 1990 and entitled Basic Local Alignment Search Tool, was the most highly cited publication of its time. The development of BLAST bridged Biology and Computer Science giving birth to the new field of Bioinformatics.

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Basic local alignment search tool

Altschul SF, Gish W, Miller W, Myers EW, Lipman DJ

Journal of Molecular Biology, october 1990. DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(05)80360-2







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