Basic Local Alignment Search Tool/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Basic Local Alignment Search Tool.

Bioinformatics algorithm for comparing primary biological sequence information, such as the amino-acid sequences of different proteins or the nucleotides of DNA sequences.