BLAST 2 SEQUENCES, a new tool for comparing protein and nucleotide sequences

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 174, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 247-250

  Tatusova, Tatiana A ^a   Madden, Thomas L ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Sequence alignment; Software

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DNA SEQUENCE; INTERNET; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0032964297     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00149-4     Document Type: Article

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