Dr. Justin R. DiAngelo (Penn State Berks) and Dr. Alexis Nagengast (Widener University) have developed an exercise that introduces students to the basic functionality of the NCBI web site and NCBI BLAST. Students will use NCBI BLAST to identify the putative orthologs of the human Leptin gene in other species.
Introduction to BLAST using Human Leptin
- Last Reviewed: August 19, 2024
- Last Updated: August 19, 2024
- Justin DiAngelo, Alexis Nagengast
- Created: June 22, 2015
- Curriculum Section: Gene Annotation
- Curriculum Type: Lesson with Exercises
- Target Audience: Beginning Student
- NIBLSE Competencies: C4
- Topic Tags: Gene Finding, Similarity Search
- Tool Tags: BLAST, NCBI