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Introduction to Sequence Analysis
Nucleotide Analysis
Running a job with BLAST2 EVEC
¥The sequence is entered into the textbox in FASTA format, which consists of a one-line header starting with a Ò>Ó symbol, followed by the sequence name

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¥The BLASTN program is used, which is designed to search a nucleotide query sequence against a DNA databank, in this case the emvec database

¥The number of scores (hits to the database) and the number of alignments of these against the query sequence is returned