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Basic local alignment search tool

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Molecular Biology, October 1990
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
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Title
Basic local alignment search tool
Published in
Journal of Molecular Biology, October 1990
DOI 10.1016/s0022-2836(05)80360-2
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Authors

Stephen F. Altschul, Warren Gish, Webb Miller, Eugene W. Myers, David J. Lipman

Abstract

A new approach to rapid sequence comparison, basic local alignment search tool (BLAST), directly approximates alignments that optimize a measure of local similarity, the maximal segment pair (MSP) score. Recent mathematical results on the stochastic properties of MSP scores allow an analysis of the performance of this method as well as the statistical significance of alignments it generates. The basic algorithm is simple and robust; it can be implemented in a number of ways and applied in a variety of contexts including straightforward DNA and protein sequence database searches, motif searches, gene identification searches, and in the analysis of multiple regions of similarity in long DNA sequences. In addition to its flexibility and tractability to mathematical analysis, BLAST is an order of magnitude faster than existing sequence comparison tools of comparable sensitivity.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 230 <1%
United Kingdom 113 <1%
Germany 110 <1%
Brazil 73 <1%
Spain 53 <1%
Canada 41 <1%
France 38 <1%
India 33 <1%
Colombia 27 <1%
Other 369 1%
Unknown 25121 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 5444 21%
Student > Bachelor 4082 16%
Student > Master 3676 14%
Researcher 3486 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 1260 5%
Other 3163 12%
Unknown 5097 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 8924 34%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5822 22%
Computer Science 1022 4%
Immunology and Microbiology 816 3%
Environmental Science 659 3%
Other 3136 12%
Unknown 5829 22%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 407. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 March 2024.
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#73,009
of 25,452,734 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Molecular Biology
#3
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Outputs of similar age
#4
of 14,937 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Molecular Biology
#1
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