[ssml] About Blast

[Robert Citek]

Hello Veronica,

On May 12, 2005, at 10:07 AM, Veronica Martinez wrote:
> I would like to ask you something... I'll be using Blast and  
> analizing Blast
> results and, since I haven't done much in that field, I would like  
> to know
> more about it (I've done a few alignments before, but there must be  
> surely a
> lot I still don't know, like results to be careful with, things to  
> have in
> mind whenever you get Blast results using different databases,  
> etc). Do you
> know any good starting points? Any comments will be greatly  
> appreciated.

If you are just starting with BLAST, I'd recommend the O'Reilly BLAST  
book:

   http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/blast/

Ian has also written some short articles on the oreilly site, but I  
can't seem to find them right now.  If you want more details on the  
internals of BLAST, I'd follow the references in the "Further  
Reading" section at the end of each chapter.

Good luck and let us know if the book was what you are looking for.

Regards,
- Robert
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