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What does BLAST tell you?

  • putative identity and function of your query sequence

  • helps to direct experimental design to prove the function

  • find similar sequences in model organisms (e.g., yeast, C. elegans, mouse), which can be used to further study the gene

  • compare complete genomes against each other to identify similarities and differences among organisms

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