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BLAST

by Ian Korf, Mark Yandell, Joseph Bedell
July 2003
Intermediate to advanced
368 pages
13h 44m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Index | 339
xdformat
BLAST and, 184, 193
FASTA files, 208
features, 184
parameters, 281–285
Unix syntax, 269
WU-BLAST and, 168, 180
xdget
FASTA files, 208
features, 168, 184, 185
parameters, 285–288
Unix syntax, 269
virtual databases, 208
XML (eXtensible Markup Language), 12,
295
Y
Y= parameter (WU-BLAST), 281
Yersinia pestis, 33
Z
Z= parameter (WU-BLAST), 281
About the Authors
Ian Korf received his B.A. from Cornell University and his Ph.D from Indiana
University. His formal training is in molecular biology, but he has had a fondness for
computer programming since his early teens. His post-doctoral research at Wash-
ington University in St. Louis and at The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in the
United Kingdom has focused on genomic sequence analysis with an emphasis on
comparative genomics and gene prediction. His goal in life is to follow genomes,
wherever they happen to take him.
Mark Yandell received his Ph.D in molecular, cellular, and developmental biology
from the University of Colorado, Boulder. After graduation, he joined the Genome
Sequencing Center at Washington University, where he pursued ...
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