NBLAST: a cluster variant of BLAST for NxN comparisons

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The BLAST algorithm compares biological sequences to one another in order to determine shared motifs and common ancestry. However, the comparison of all non-redundant (NR) sequences against all other NR sequences is a computationally...

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Main Authors: Dumontier Michel, Hogue Christopher WV
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2002-05-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/3/13