BLAT Search
BLAT can find a query sequence's location in a reference genome. It employs UCSC-BLAT
to finish this task.
Paste in a query sequence or choose to upload a text file containing the
sequence. Multiple sequences may be searched if separated by lines starting with '>' followed by the
sequence name.
Query type. Type is one of:
DNA - DNA sequence
RNA - RNA sequence
protein - protein sequence
translated DNA - DNA sequence translated in six frames to protein
translated RNA - DNA sequence translated in three frames to protein
BLAT on DNA is designed to quickly find sequences of 95% and greater similarity of length 25 bases or more. It may miss more divergent or shorter sequence alignments. It will find perfect sequence matches of 20 bases. BLAT on proteins finds sequences of 80% and greater similarity of length 20 amino acids or more. In practice DNA BLAT works well on primates, and protein BLAT on land vertebrates.
Kent WJ. BLAT - the BLAST-like alignment tool. Genome Res. 2002 Apr;12(4):656-64. PMID: 11932250
More information about BLAT can be found hear - UCSC-BLAT .