PLNT4610/PLNT7690Bioinformatics
Lecture 5, part 1 of 3

DATABASE SIMILARITY SEARCHES

REFERENCES

Madden T. The BLAST Sequence Analysis Tool. 2013 Mar 15. In: The NCBI Handbook [Internet]. 2nd edition. Bethesda (MD): National Center for Biotechnology Information (US); 2013-. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK153387/

Schuler GD (1998) Sequence alignment and database searching In Baxevanis AD and Ouellette BFF. Eds. Bioinformatics: A practical guide to the analysis of genes and proteins. John Wiley, Toronto.

Setubal, J. and Meidanis, J. (1997) Introduction to Computational Molecular Biology. PWS Publishing Co., Toronto. Ch. 3 "Sequence Comparison and Database Search".

Wilbur, WJ and Lipman DJ (1983) Rapid similarity searches of nucleic acid and protein databanks. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 80:726-730)

ASSIGNED READING

Altschul SF (2003) BLAST Algorithm. Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0005253

BLAST searches through a Data Science Lens (34:28)