Editor's note: Mark Yandell is co-author of BLAST: A Guide to the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (I. Korf, M. Yandell, J. Bedell, O'Reilly & Associates, 2003; 339 pages. (sciencemag.org)
Chris Kingsley, Associate Director, Local Policy and Advocacy, leads the Data Quality Campaign's state - local alignment efforts, helping state policymakers improve the availability and use of high - quality education data among local leaders working both inside and outside of schools to improve student success. (aypf.org)
This was 1993, and all of a sudden everyone was doing basic local alignment search tool (BLAST) searches. (sciencemag.org)