/Perl_It-sABlast

Primary LanguagePerl

Perl_It-sABlast

This is a toy commandline BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) written in PERL. It uses 1 query string and 1 database string to find all high scoring string matches between the query string and the database string. The program uses the k-value (line 25: perl_ItsABlast.pl) to set the length of the substrings matched between the database string and the query string.

How to Use

  1. Download repository contents

  2. Open up the perl_ItsABlast.pl file in your text editor of choice

  3. Modify lines 9 and 12 to refer to the files you are using to hold your database and query strings

  4. Run using perl perl_ItsABlast.pl and to display the number of high scoring match pairs between the strings and the length of their similar sequence.