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    • BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool)

    Metadata Updated: July 18, 2025

    BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) finds regions of similarity between biological sequences.

    BLAST includes several specialized search interfaces: SmartBLAST, Primer-BLAST, Global Align, CD-Search, IgBLAST, VecScreen, CDART, Multiple Alignment, MOLE-BLAST, Searches at a Cloud Provider, BLAST+ Docker Image

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date April 6, 2021
    Metadata Updated Date July 18, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Healthdata.gov

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date April 6, 2021
    Metadata Updated Date July 18, 2025
    Publisher National Library of Medicine
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://datadiscovery.nlm.nih.gov/api/views/qn84-sbuf
    Data First Published 2012-08-22
    Data Last Modified 2025-07-17
    Category Biology
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 009:25
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://healthdata.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id d66af3af-ff94-411c-a031-c40f1ef4be84
    Harvest Source Id 651e43b2-321c-4e4c-b86a-835cfc342cb0
    Harvest Source Title Healthdata.gov
    Homepage URL http://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi
    License http://opendefinition.org/licenses/odc-odbl/
    Program Code 009:041
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash e95096d692c022369353ba817ed9e712de82fa0b166f4f41caf50304607d5757
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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