BLAST, short for Basic Local Alignment Search Tool, developed by Altschul et al.
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is a tool to quickly retrieve sequences similar to a query from a database. CoNekT users have two flavors of BLAST at their disposal to find sequences similar to their input.
- blastp should be used to find sequences using a protein sequence as input.
- blastn should be used to find sequences using a nucleotide sequence as input.