Is Protein BLAST a thing of the past?

Nat Commun

Biotechnology Center (BIOTEC), Center for Molecular and Cellular Bioengineering, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.

Published: December 2023

Will protein structure search tools like AlphaFold replace protein sequence search with BLAST? We discuss the promises, using structure search for remote homology detection, and why protein BLAST, as the leading sequence search tool, should strive to incorporate structural information

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10713564PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-44082-5DOI Listing

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