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MORE ADVANCED ALIGNMENT

In this lesson, we will be discussing about progressive sequence alignment and BLAST,  a bioinformatics tool used for sequence similarity searches. It allows researchers to identify homologous sequences, search large sequence databases, and design PCR primers. BLAST is an important tool for bioinformatics because it helps researchers to understand gene function, evolution, and disease.