The BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) in bioinformatics is used for
Question and options
The BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) in bioinformatics is used for
- Protein structure prediction
- Gene expression analysis
- Sequence similarity searching
- Protein-Protein interaction prediction
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: C - Sequence similarity searching
BLAST compares a query nucleotide or protein sequence against databases to find locally similar sequences, i.e. sequence similarity searching.
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