Programs available for the BLAST search

The NCBI BLAST family of programs available:

blastn

compares a nucleotide query sequence against a nucleotide sequence database

tblastn

compares a protein query sequence against a nucleotide sequence database dynamically translated in all reading frames

tblastx

compares the six-frame translations of a nucleotide query sequence against the six-frame translations of a nucleotide sequence database. Please note that tblastx program cannot be used with the nr database on the BLAST Web page.

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