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Arabidopsis thaliana (thale cress) Nucleotide BLAST
BLASTN programs search nucleotide databases using a nucleotide query. more...
Enter Query Sequence
Enter query sequence(s) in the text area. It automatically determines the format of the input. To allow this feature, certain conventions are required with regard to the input of identifiers. more...

Enter coordinates for a subrange of the query sequence. The BLAST search will apply only to the residues in the range. Sequence coordinates are from 1 to the sequence length.The range includes the residue at the To coordinate. more...

Help

Use the browse button to upload a file from your local disk. The file may contain a single sequence or a list of sequences. The data may be either a list of database accession numbers, NCBI gi numbers, or sequences in FASTA format.


Enter a descriptive title for your BLAST search Help

This title appears on all BLAST results and saved searches.

Enter Subject Sequence
Subject sequence(s) to be used for a BLAST search should be pasted in the text area. It automatically determines the format or the input. To allow this feature there are certain conventions required with regard to the input of identifiers. more...

Enter coordinates for a subrange of the subject sequence. The BLAST search will apply only to the residues in the range. Sequence coordinates are from 1 to the sequence length.The range includes the residue at the To coordinate. more...

 
Help

Use the browse button to upload a file from your local disk. The file may contain a single sequence or a list of sequences. The data may be either a list of database accession numbers, NCBI gi numbers, or sequences in FASTA format.

Choose Search Set
Database sequences non-default value Help

Select the sequence database to run searches against. No BLAST database contains all the sequences at NCBI. BLAST databases are organized by informational content (nr, RefSeq, etc.) or by sequencing technique (WGS, EST, etc.). more...


Enter an Entrez query to limit search Help

You can use Entrez query syntax to search a subset of the selected BLAST database. This can be helpful to limit searches to molecule types, sequence lengths or to exclude organisms. more...

Program Selection
Choose a BLAST algorithm Help
  • Megablast is intended for comparing a query to closely related sequences and works best if the target percent identity is 95% or more but is very fast.
  • Discontiguous megablast uses an initial seed that ignores some bases (allowing mismatches) and is intended for cross-species comparisons.
  • BlastN is slow, but allows a word-size down to seven bases.
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Help

Enter a PHI pattern to start the search. PHI-BLAST may perform better than simple pattern searching because it filters out false positives (pattern matches that are probably random and not indicative of homology).

Choose a BLAST algorithm Help
  • QuickBLASTP is an accelerated version of BLASTP that is very fast and works best if the target percent identity is 50% or more.
  • BlastP simply compares a protein query to a protein database.
  • PSI-BLAST allows the user to build a PSSM (position-specific scoring matrix) using the results of the first BlastP run.
  • PHI-BLAST performs the search but limits alignments to those that match a pattern in the query.
  • DELTA-BLAST constructs a PSSM using the results of a Conserved Domain Database search and searches a sequence database.
Search using Megablast (Optimize for highly similar sequences)
Note: Parameter values that differ from the default are highlighted in yellow and marked with sign