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The Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) finds regions of local similarity between sequences. The program compares nucleotide or protein sequences to sequence databases and calculates the statistical significance of matches.
The Genome database provides views for a variety of genomes, complete chromosomes, sequence maps with contigs, and integrated genetic and physical maps.
The Human Genome plus "a broad collection of vertebrate and model organism assemblies and annotations, along with a large suite of tools for viewing, analyzing and downloading data."
GEP is a collaboration between a number of institutions and the Biology Dept and Genome Center of Washington University in St. Louis to provide opportunities for undergraduate students to participate in genomics research.