Blast is a collection of tools and servers for genetic sequencing. BioPerl is a collection of Perl modules that constitute one of the more popular toolkits for accessing, searching, analyzing, storing and interpreting genomic (DNA etc.) data. It incorporates statistics, pattern matching, networking, graphics and data base applications.

Suggested Books:

Bioinformatics Links

GenBank

BioPerl

NCBI and BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Sequencing Tool)

EMBL

Swiss-Prot

FASTA

Data Base Access and Tools

Tutorials

Degree Programs

Regular Expressions and Pattern Matching

Reference Tables and Data