BLAST finds regions of similarity between biological sequences. The program compares nucleotide or protein sequences to sequence databases and calculates the statistical significance.
blastn | search nucleotide databases using a nucleotide query. blastp | search protein databases using a protein query. blastx | search protein databases using a translated nucleotide query. tblastn | search translated nucleotide databases using a protein query. tblastx | search translated nucleotide databases using a translated nucleotide query.
