Software tools for bioinformatics range from simple command-line tools to more complex graphical programs. The computational biological tool best known among biologist is BLAST. It is an algorithm for determining the similarity of arbitrary sequences against other sequences. BLAST is one of the available programmes for doing sequence alignment. Other analytical tools are WEGO, GO browse, genome browser.
First fast sequence searching algorithm for comparing a query sequence against database. It was first created by Pearson and Lipman in 1988. The method looks for exact matches between words in query and test sequence.
The BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) program was designed by Eugene Myers, Stephen Altschul, Warren Gish, David J. Lipman and Webb Miller at the NIH and was published in J. Mol. Biol. in 1990. It is based on the assumption as FASTA that good alignments contain short lengths of exact matches. It is design specially for database searches.
Author(s) Details:
Dipankar Brahma
Department of Sericulture, Forest College and Research Institute, Mettupalayam-641301, India.
Nilav Ranjan Bora
Department of Sericulture, Forest College and Research Institute, Mettupalayam-641301, India.
Rushali Chakraborty
Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, AAU, Jorhat 785013, India.
Jugabrat Sarma
Department of Sericulture, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, Assam 783350, India.
Abhigyan Rajhowa
Department of Sericulture, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, Assam 783350, India.
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References
- Brahma, D., Bora, N. R., Narzary, P. R., Chakraborty, R., Sarma, J., & Rajkhowa, A. (2024). Tools and Applications of Bioinformatics in Sericulture: A Review. Asian Journal of Current Research, 9(1), 86-94.
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