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Does Blast Use Multiple Sequence Alignment

does blast database search use multiple sequence alignment technique ?

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Basic Local Alignment Search Tool

Answer: NO. It doesn't.

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No. In a multiple alignment, you supply multiple sequences to be aligned. In BLAST, you supply one or more query sequences and the best matches for each in turn are discovered using a fast local alignment algorithm. Hence the name: Basic Local Alignment Search Tool - BLAST.

There is plenty of available literature on BLAST: start with the NCBI Handbook, then progress to the statistics of BLAST and the original publication.

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