Q.5 Program used for essentially local similarity search is (A) BLAST (B) RasMol (C) ExPASY (D) SWISS-PROT
Q.5 Program used for essentially local similarity search is
(A) BLAST
(B) RasMol
(C) ExPASY
(D) SWISS-PROT
Answer
Answer: (A) BLAST
BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) is used for local sequence similarity searches to find regions of local similarity between sequences. RasMol is a molecular visualization program, ExPASY is a bioinformatics resource portal, and SWISS-PROT is a protein sequence database.