Run NCBI BLAST on Compute Engine

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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 significance of matches. BLAST can be used to infer functional and evolutionary relationships between sequences as well as help identify members of gene families.

• For more information, see NCBI BLAST Cloud Documentation and NCBI BLAST.
• To deploy BLAST to Google Compute Engine, you can click-to-deploy NCBI BLAST.

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