Find similar DNA or protein sequences in databases
Basic Local Alignment Search Tool
blastnblastpblastxtblastntblastxmakeblastdbblastdbcmd$ blastn -db nucleotide_db -query sequence.fasta -out results.txt$ blastp -db nr -query proteins.fasta -remote -outfmt 6 > matches.tsv$ makeblastdb -in sequences.fasta -dbtype nucl -out my_database$ blastx -db protein_db -query dna_sequence.fasta -evalue 1e-5$ tblastn -db genomic_db -query protein.fasta -outfmt 7