Multiple choice

Which of the following tools is used for local alignment?

  1. BLAST

  2. ClustalW

  3. ORF Finder

  4. Genscan

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Explanation

BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) is explicitly designed for finding local regions of similarity between sequences. ClustalW is used for multiple sequence alignment, whereas ORF Finder and Genscan are gene finders.