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Basic Local Alignment Search Tool

papers articles scientific paper paper major planned

Creators

  • Stephen F. Altschul, author
  • Warren Gish, author
  • Webb Miller, author
  • Eugene W. Myers, author
  • David J. Lipman, author

Canon Rationale

A major bioinformatics paper, included for sequence database search, local alignment, and the practical computational infrastructure of modern molecular biology.

Evidence

  • citation context: Altschul et al., 'Basic local alignment search tool,' Journal of Molecular Biology, 1990.
  • syllabus: Academic bioinformatics course materials treating BLAST as a foundational sequence-alignment method.

Audit Flags

version dependency, epistemic status required

Completion unit: read the full 1990 paper. This tracks the paper, not exhaustive software use.

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