What is NCBI, FASTA, BLAST

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NCBI is a database of biological information, FASTA is a file format for representing DNA/protein sequences, and BLAST is a tool for sequence similarity searching.

NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) is a comprehensive database that provides access to various biological information, including DNA and protein sequences, gene expression data, and biomedical literature.
FASTA is a file format commonly used to represent DNA or protein sequences. It consists of a header line starting with a '>' symbol, followed by the sequence data.
BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) is a widely used bioinformatics tool that allows researchers to compare a query sequence against a database of known sequences to identify similar sequences and infer functional or evolutionary relationships.

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National centre for biotechnology information