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Phase 2 — Core Bioinformatics
Module 10

BLAST & Minimap2

Sequence similarity search and long-read alignment. BLAST finds homologous sequences across species. Minimap2 aligns long Oxford Nanopore and PacBio reads. Both are used weekly in plant genomics.

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~7 hrsStudy time
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What you'll learn

Topics covered in this module

blastn · blastp · blastx
E-value interpretation
Minimap2
PAF format
Output parsing in Python

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