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Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST)

Metadata Updated: June 27, 2024

BLAST finds regions of similarity between biological sequences. The program compares nucleotide or protein sequences to sequence databases and calculates the statistical significance. Technical documentation at http://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi?CMD=Web&PAGE_TYPE=BlastDocs

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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 June 27, 2024

Metadata Source

Harvested from Healthdata.gov

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date April 6, 2021
Metadata Updated Date June 27, 2024
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 2024-06-20
Category Molecular biology/Genetics
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 37c967c2-302c-4351-84dd-d15cf52fb195
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 4972d590b1720715cbc774b6592520d1f025bf7ae845cea5ae3cde5b1f5a1aab
Source Schema Version 1.1

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