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Insect Barcode Protocol

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GENBANK

Basic Local Alignment Search

Tool - BLAST

finds regions of similarity

between biological sequences.

The program compares

nucleotide or protein sequences

to sequence databases and

calculates the statistical

significance.

(BLAST finds regions of local similarity

between sequences. The program

compares nucleotide or protein

sequences to sequence databases and

calculates the statistical significance of

matches. BLAST can be used to infer

functional and evolutionary

relationships between sequences as well

as help identify members of gene

families.

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