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diff --git a/academic/ncbi-blast/slack-desc b/academic/ncbi-blast/slack-desc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..645495314f --- /dev/null +++ b/academic/ncbi-blast/slack-desc @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +# HOW TO EDIT THIS FILE: +# The "handy ruler" below makes it easier to edit a package description. +# Line up the first '|' above the ':' following the base package name, and +# the '|' on the right side marks the last column you can put a character in. +# You must make exactly 11 lines for the formatting to be correct. It's also +# customary to leave one space after the ':' except on otherwise blank lines. + + |-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------| +ncbi-blast: ncbi-blast (BLAST: Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) +ncbi-blast: +ncbi-blast: The Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) finds regions of +ncbi-blast: local similarity between sequences. The program compares nucleotide +ncbi-blast: or protein sequences to sequence databases and calculates the +ncbi-blast: statistical significance of matches. BLAST can be used to infer +ncbi-blast: functional and evolutionary relationships between sequences as well +ncbi-blast: as help identify members of gene families. +ncbi-blast: +ncbi-blast: Home: http://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ +ncbi-blast: |