
Introduction
to Sequence Analysis
FASTA similarity search - Introduction
¥FASTA provides a rapid way to find
short stretches of similar sequence and any sequence in a database.
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¥This program is much more sensitive
than BLAST programs, which is reflected by the length of time required to
produce results. FASTA produces optimal local alignment scores for the
comparison of the query sequence to every sequence in the database.
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