GenomicsIn preparation
BLAST, and whatyour sequence resembles
Local alignment against nucleotide and protein databases.The search that starts most sequence questions.
Not on the hub yet The image and its definition are being built and verified.
01Pick a machinecores, memory and a rate per hour
02Set it up oncekept on the volume between runs
03Run it, then stopstopped when the work is done
The application
Similarity,found and ranked
The oldest question in the field: what else looks like this?
Six ways to ask
blastn, blastp, blastx, tblastn and the rest of the family.
Your database or theirs
Search a database you built, or one pulled down beforehand.
Ranked by E-value
Hits come back ordered, each with the alignment underneath.
The status
Being built,and verified
When the image and its definition are done, it deploys by name like the rest.
Run BLAST on your own machinePick a machine that meets it, and it opens about a minute after you ask.