| Name | LAST |
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| Aliases | None |
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| Description | LAST is a software for comparing and aligning sequences, typically DNA or protein sequences. LAST is similar to BLAST, but it copes better with very large amounts of sequence data. It can also report probabilities for every pair of aligned letters, indicating the reliability of each pairing. |
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| Type | Tool |
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| Main Institutes of management | Computational Biology Research Center (CBRC), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) |
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| Country of the Institute | Japan |
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| URL of the site | http://last.cbrc.jp/ |
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| Interface | CUI (Character User Interface, or Command line) |
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| Input | Nucleic acid sequence(FASTA format) |
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| Output | Alignment(Text) |
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| Input example | The inputs are (multi-)fasta format sequences.The LAST download includes some in its "examples" directory. |
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| Keyword | Comparative genomics | sequence tag mapping | spaced seeds | suffix array | Vmatch | X-drop algorithm |
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| Amount of the all data for download（Mbyte） | Method to obtain the all data. | 0.4|Download from the page http://last.cbrc.jp/archive/ |
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| External resources (databases) in building the product. | None |
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| Data type | DNA-sequence ,RNA, protein, user-defined alphabet. |
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| Biological species in the main concern | All species |
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| Conditions of use | GNU GPL |
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| Frequency of updates (in last two years) | 32 |
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| Last date of updates (date of confirmation) | 2016/11/22 (2019/06/03) |
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| Main IDs used in the products | None |
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| How to make a link to get access to each IDs. | None |
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| external databases to which this database/tool have links | None |
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| Published papers (PubMed IDs) | pmid:21209072 | pmid:20110255 | pmid:20144198 |
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| Operational Status | Available |
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