BLAST
BLAST is both a genomic alignment algorithm and also a software implementation of said algorithm produced by the NCBI. It takes genomic sequences (strings of A (adenine), T (thymine), C (cytosine), G (guanine), the four base pairs that make up DNA) that are generated from sequencing laboratory equipment and aligns them against a reference genome to determine where in that genome they came from, and thus what genes they are.
The following section will walk you through:
- Running an example BLAST workflow
- Saving results generated by the example BLAST workflow to S3
- Viewing saved results in S3