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What are the advantages of using Blast?

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What are the advantages of using Blast?

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BLAST is fast. Many other programs try to use Smith-Waterman-like algorithms to do these alignments, but this only slows the program down immensely. GrailEXP uses BLAST to get the “ball park” alignments, because it is fast and everyone is familiar with it.

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