how a blast search works? The central idea of the blast algorithm is to contine attention o segment pairs that contain a word pair of length w with a score of at least T” Altschul et al. (1990) Seeding -Extending Genomics and Bioinformatics 2015. TMMLGenomics and Bioinformatics 2015, TMMU How a BLAST search works? Seeding-Extending “The central idea of the BLAST algorithm is to confine attention to segment pairs that contain a word pair of length w with a score of at least T.” Altschul et al. (1990)