Blast2: Basic Local Alignment Search Tool

Some information about Blast2 from the Debian-Med project.

 The famous sequence alignment program. This is "official" NCBI version, #2.
 The blastall executable allows you to give a nucleotide or protein
 sequence to the program. It is compared against databases and a summary of
 matches is returned to the user.

 The reference Web server is http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST/.  There you
 can obtain information about the databases to use which are not included
 in Debian and how they can be retrieved manually.
 
 More infromation about the blast2 tools can be obtained from the following
 manpages:
 
   copymat.1 formatdb.1 makemat.1 blast.1 blastclust.1 fastacmd.1 seedtop.1
   impala.1 bl2seq.1 blastpgp.1 blastcl3.1 blastall.1 rpsblast.1 megablast.1
 
