Homology used in Blast Algorithm

[Francis Ouellette]

Fredj Tekaia (tekaia at pasteur.fr) wrote:

> In article <35tt0l$4pl at cismsun.univ-lyon1.fr> duret at evoserv.univ-lyon1.fr writes:
> [...]
> >
> >You may find interesting information and relevant references about matrices
> >and similarity search programs in a recent review by Altschul et al. (1994)
> >Nature Genetics 6:119-129

>  You may also consult the following Hypertext links :

> 1- A Guide to sequence searching
>    http://twod.med.harvard.edu/seqanal/index.html

> 2- Performance evaluation of amino acid substitution matrices
>    http://www.blocks.fhcrc.org/papers/

> 3- Protein Sequence Alignment and Database Scanning
>    http://geoff.biop.ox.ac.uk/bibliography.html#bookchap

I guess it is also good to include this one in this list:

4- Blast server
   http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

regards,

francis

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