For BLAST we have terms and definitions in 8 topics. The topics are Cancer, Drugs, Explosives, Genome, Golf, Hippy, Soccer and Yeast Genome.

BLAST (Cancer)

An immature blood cell.

BLAST (Drugs)

Cocaine; Smoke crack; Marijuana; smoke marijuana or crack

BLAST (Explosives)

Sudden air pressure created by the discharge of a gun or the explosion of a charge.

BLAST (Genome)

A computer program that identifies homologous (similar) genes in different organisms, such as human, fruit fly, or nematode.

BLAST (Golf)

A shot from a sand trap that takes a large amount of sand with it; as a verb, to hit such a shot.

BLAST (Hippy)

A really great party or time. British origin? "We had a blast at the Stones concert!"

BLAST (Soccer)

A hard hit, quick paced shot

BLAST (Yeast Genome)

Basic Local Alignment Search Tool is a search algorithm developed by Altschul et al. (1990). It is a very fast search algorithm that is used by the blastn, blastp, and blastx programs to separately search protein or DNA databases. BLAST is best used for sequence similarity searching, rather than for motif searching.

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