http://blog.lib.umn.edu/messn006/blastit/ a simple example of using NCBI BLAST en-us 2005-09-23T09:57:21-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/messn006/blastit/028047.html This description is taken from the BLAST web site at NCBI (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST/): "The 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... 2005-09-23T09:57:21-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/messn006/blastit/028046.html 1. Go to the NCBI home page: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 2. Take the link to BLAST on the dark blue bar across the top of the page. 3. Under the heading Nucleotide, choose Nucleotide-nucleotide BLAST (blastn) 4. Copy and paste the DNA... 2005-09-23T09:53:11-06:00