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Blast is a computational tool used by genome biologists to _____.
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Blast is a computational tool used by genome biologists to compare a given DNA or protein sequence to all other DNA or protein sequences in a database.
BLAST is short for Basic Local Alignment and Search Tool. Hope this answers the question.
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