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.