Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) - is a tool for matching
sequences of genetic information.

  BLAST performs fast database searching combined with rigorous statistics
for judging the significance of matches. Five BLAST programs search
many different combinations of query and database sequences. The BLAST
algorithm is described in S.F. Altschul, W. Gish, W. Miller, E.W. Myers,
and D.J. Lipman, J. Mol. Biol. 215, 403-10 (1990).

  BLAST binaries, licensing information, documentation and data are 
distributed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/.

  A distribution of BLAST 1.4.9 optimized for Sun UltraSPARC is included here,
along with a set of binaries.  Edit and run the BLAST.run script to rebuild
the binaries.