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Example Use Case
Identify similar sequences
Beth is working with a new sequence and wants to check if similar sequences are known. (Similar sequences usually have similar functionality, and the more similar the more likely that is true.)
She uses BLAST to do a similarity search on available databases. For each hit she looks at the record to find out what that matching sequence does. She makes a note of possible gene function and the sources of that assuption.