Chapter 18, Problem 14P

Summary Introduction

To analyze:

Access to http://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi and type in the sequence below in the link nucleotide blast, it is broken into codons to make it simple to copy.

$\begin{array}{l}\begin{array}{l}\text{5' ATG TTC GTC AAT CAG CAC CTT TGT GGT}\hfill \\ \text{TCT CAC CTC GTT GAA GCTTTG TAC CTT GTT}\hfill \\ \text{TGC GGT GAA CGT GGT TTC TTC TAC ACT}\hfill \end{array}\\ \text{ CCT AAG ACT TAA 3'}\end{array}$

Collect the information on the basis of steps mentioned in the question and determine the DNA sequence.

Introduction:

In bioinformatics, BLAST stands for “basic local alignment search tool” that finds the region of local similarity between the biological sequences. This algorithm compares a DNA sequence or an amino acid sequence to the sequences that are in the databases and calculates the statistical significance of the sequence matches. BLAST can be used to identify the members that belong to one gene family. There are different types of BLAST present used according to the query sequence.