title: Using the FASTA program to search protein and DNA sequence databases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
authors.forename: W R
authors.initials: WR
authors.lastname: Pearson
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D004247:DNA / Q000235:genetics*; D016208:Databases, Factual; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011506:Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D016415:Sequence Alignment / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D012984:Software
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins; D004247:DNA