¥BLAST
stands for Basic Local Alignment Search tool.
¥It is aimed
to find regions of sequence similarity, which will yield functional and
evolutionary cluess about the structure and function of your query
sequence.
¥We will
now be able to find out what sequence Sequence
2 is, as this sequence is a real entry in the EMBL Nucleotide
Sequence Database [EMBL release], and see what sequences it is in fact similar
to.
We are going to use the form: