On Wednesday 06 April 2011 16:55:57 Robin Kramer wrote: > I don't know why I was thinking it would be using the text book, "Blast for > dummies". Some of the "for dummies" books are actually excellent introductions into topics when people have absolutely no plan (others are crap, granted). And incidentally, just a couple of weeks ago I wished a "for dummies" book existed on BLAST. You don't want to know how some people simply misuse that tool and then wonder nothing substantial comes out of wet-lab follow-up experiments ... ;-) B.