Sequence Similarity Searching
- Keith Robisons's Biocomputing Hypertext Book
- Keith Robison, Harvard Institute of Human Genetics
- Boston, MA
- A quick introduction to BLAST and FASTA, and some
common pitfalls, with many links to references and supporting
documentation.
- http://arep.med.harvard.edu/seqanal/
- The Statistics of Sequence Similarity Scores
- Stephen Altschul, NCBI/Cold Spring Harbor
- A very clear explanation of how BLAST generates
those "e-values", has some math, but not intimidating.
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST/tutorial/Altschul-1.html
- BLAST OFF: Interpreting BLAST Results (tutorial)
- Stanford Human Genome Center
- Human Genome Education Program
- http://www-shgc.stanford.edu/bio-ed/BlastSearch.html
- Exploring Distant Protein Sequence Relationships
- William R. Pearson, Univ. of Virgina
- A good theoretical discussion of using similarity
searching programs (FASTA) to study evolutionary relationships. Slides
from a talk - missing some of the explanations that would be given in
a live talk.
- http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/bcd/Lectures/prot_talk12-95.html
- Database Similarity Searching Using BLAST and FastA
- Bruno A. Ga‘ta, Australian National Genomic Information Service,
- The University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
- http://ba-itumac1.lib.unimelb.edu.au/ABA/zBLAST_Fasta/BLAST_FastA.html