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BLAST Searches for Genetic Information, National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Internet URL http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST/ Sponsoring Agency National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health Description BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) is a service provided in order to provide all documentation available about the BLAST programs, the searchable databases and the NCBI servers. The NCBI also builds, maintains and distributes the GenBank Sequence Database. Databases Available for BLAST searches are protein sequences databases and nucleotide sequences databases. Related Topics Genetics Review Date 2/23/2004

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