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diff --git a/academic/ncbi-blast/README b/academic/ncbi-blast/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..281a0ab836 --- /dev/null +++ b/academic/ncbi-blast/README @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Legacy BLAST Command Line Applications + +The NCBI Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) finds regions of +local similarity between sequences. The program compares nucleotide or +protein sequences to sequence databases and calculates the statistical +significance of matches. BLAST can be used to infer functional and +evolutionary relationships between sequences as well as help identify +members of gene families. + +This just repackages the binaries provided from upstream. |