Multiple choice

The tool used in NCBI to identify similar protein 3 D' structures is

  1. DALI

  2. LUDI

  3. VAST

  4. BLAST

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C Correct answer
Explanation

VAST (Vector Alignment Search Tool) is NCBI's structure comparison service that identifies similar protein 3D structures by comparing structural geometry and topology. DALI is a similar tool but not part of NCBI, LUDI is for drug design, and BLAST is for sequence similarity.