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Name: Introduction to Sequence Alignment
ID: m11026
Language: English (en)
Summary: This module is an introduction to pairwise sequence alignments between a query sequence and a sequence database, using NCBI's BLAST, and between a query sequence and a genome, using UCSC's BLAT.
Subject: Science and Technology
Keywords: amino acid sequence, bioinformatics, BLAST, BLAT, nucleotide sequence, pair-wise sequence alignment, sequence alignment
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5 plus MathML//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 1.0
Authors: Susan Cates (mscates@bioc.rice.edu)
Copyright Holders: Susan Cates (mscates@bioc.rice.edu)
Maintainers: Susan Cates (mscates@bioc.rice.edu)
Latest version: 2.13 (history)
First publication date: Jan 24, 2003 12:00 am US/Central
Last revision to module: Aug 26, 2008 3:51 pm GMT-5
Module XML: m11026_2.13.cnxml

Version History

Version: 2.13 Aug 26, 2008 3:51 pm GMT-5 by Susan Cates
Changes: 
minor edits
Version: 2.12 Sep 4, 2007 11:35 am GMT-5 by Susan Cates
Changes: 
minor edits
Version: 2.11 Sep 4, 2007 11:24 am GMT-5 by Susan Cates
Changes: 
updated for the new NCBI interface and for changes in the default BLAT display
Version: 2.10 Jan 10, 2007 2:33 pm US/Central by Susan Cates
Changes: 
 updates for web site interfaces changes since last year
Version: 2.9 Jan 23, 2006 2:00 pm US/Central by Susan Cates
Changes: 
fixed bad link
Version: 2.8 Jan 16, 2006 4:57 pm US/Central by Susan Cates
Changes: 
minor edits
Version: 2.7 Feb 16, 2005 4:17 pm US/Central by Susan Cates
Changes: 
reworded ambiguous exercise
Version: 2.6 Jan 19, 2005 1:09 pm US/Central by Susan Cates
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inserted <exercise> and <problem> tags for questions
Version: 2.5 Jan 28, 2004 4:05 pm US/Central by Susan Cates
Changes: 
reworded blast instructions
Version: 2.4 Jan 16, 2004 2:19 pm US/Central by Susan Cates
Changes: 
updated questions from last year
Version: 2.3 Jan 15, 2004 6:37 pm US/Central by Susan Cates
Changes: 
converted to cnxml 0.5
Version: 2.2 Jan 14, 2004 4:10 pm US/Central by Susan Cates
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none
Version: 2.1 Jan 30, 2003 12:00 am US/Central by (Unknown)
Changes: 
changed format of nucleotide sequence using codeblock syntax
Version: 2.0 Jan 24, 2003 12:00 am US/Central by (Unknown)
Changes: 
Intro to Sequence Alignment, V1

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