| Why
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| • | New
sequences compared to existing |
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| sequences |
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| • | Similar
sequences often have similar |
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| function |
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| • | Most
widely used algorithm in |
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| computational
biology tools |
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| – | e.g.
BLAST at |
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST/ |
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