Programs available for the Blast search
The NCBI Blast family of programs includes:
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blastp
- compares an amino acid query sequence against a protein
sequence database
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blastn
- compares a nucleotide query sequence against a nucleotide
sequence database
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blastx
- compares a nucleotide query sequence translated in all
reading frames against a protein sequence database
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tblastn
- compares a protein query sequence against a nucleotide
sequence database dynamically translated in all reading
frames
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tblastx
- compares the six-frame translations of a nucleotide query
sequence against the six-frame translations of a nucleotide
sequence database. Please note that tblastx program cannot be
used with the nr database on the Blast Web page.