Bioinformatics scientists also use standard tools such as Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) and other sequence comparison software packages for data mining. Educational Requirements The ...

Apple, Genentech tweak BLAST bioinformatics tool for Mac. By Peter Cohen. FEB 6, 2002 4:00 pm PST. If you’re a Mac using biomedical researcher, you may be very interested in some news from Apple.

BLAST is arguably the single most important piece of software ever written for the biological sciences. It is the core of most bioinformatics workflows, being a critical component of genome ...