Which of the following is not correct about FASTA? – McqOptions

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1.	Which of the following is not correct about FASTA?
A.	Its stands for FAST ALL
B.	It was in fact the first database similarity search tool developed, preceding the development of BLAST
C.	FASTA uses a ‘hashing’ strategy to find matches for a short stretch of identical residues with a length of k
D.	The string of residues is known as blocks
Answer» E.

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