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BLAT

pairwise sequence alignment algorithm
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BLAT

Summary

BLAT is a software[1]. BLAT ranks in the top 6% of software entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • BLAT's image is recorded as BLAT indexing.png[3].
  • BLAT's instance of is recorded as software[4].
  • BLAT's developer is recorded as Jim Kent[5].
  • BLAT's has use is recorded as science[6].
  • BLAT's has use is recorded as bioinformatics[7].
  • BLAT's has use is recorded as sequence alignment[8].
  • BLAT's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02qgb45[9].
  • BLAT's official website is recorded as http://genome.ucsc.edu[10].
  • BLAT's source code repository URL is recorded as http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#source_downloads[11].
  • BLAT's user manual URL is recorded as https://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/blatSpec.html[12].
  • BLAT's Repology project name is recorded as blat[13].

Why It Matters

BLAT ranks in the top 6% of software entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8 views/month).[2]

Related Entities

bioinformatics science software

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). BLAT. Retrieved April 8, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/blat
MLA “BLAT.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 8 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/blat.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_blat_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{BLAT}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/blat}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-08}}
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