Similarity Searches on Sequence Databases: BLAST, FASTA

Similarity Searches on Sequence Databases, EMBnet Course, October 2003 Similarity Searches on Sequence Databases: BLAST, FASTA Lorenza Bordoli Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics EMBnet Course, Basel, October 2003

• similarity searches
• underlying guarantee of an optimal solution like the dynamic programming algorithm
• fasta algorithm
• function extrapolate function
• sequence databases
• sequence of the database
• biological function
• sequences
• dynamic programming