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Pre-lesson: Introduction to BLAST

Author(s): Anne Rosenwald1, Gaurav Arora2, Vinayak Mathur3

1. Georgetown University 2. Gallaudet University 3. Cabrini University

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Summary:
Genome Solver began as a way to teach undergraduate faculty some basic skills in bioinformatics; no coding or scripting is required. This pre-lesson introduces the BLAST tool.

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Version 2.0 - published on 05 Aug 2020 doi:10.25334/TY8V-G541 - cite this

Description

Genome Solver began as a way to teach undergraduate faculty some basic skills in bioinformatics; no coding or scripting is required.  This pre-lesson serves as an introduction to the BLAST (basic local alignment search tool) which some might feel is useful before embarking on the main lessons.  

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Materials were updated summer 2020 to match changes to external tools cited in this lesson. 

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