A violent gust of wind (in windy weather) or apparent wind (around a moving vehicle).
And see where surly Winter passes off, / Far to the north, and calls his ruffian blasts; / His blasts obey, and quit the howling hill.
A forcible stream of gas or liquid from an orifice, for example from a bellows, the tuyeres of a blast furnace, a person's mouth, etc.
An immature or undifferentiated cell (e.g., lymphoblast, myeloblast).
To make an impression on, by making a loud blast or din.
Used to show anger or disappointment: damn
Now, where's my Labour membership card, so I can consider whether to tear it up? Blast, it's plastic...
An algorithm which .
From Middle English blast, blest, from Old English blǣst (“blowing, blast”), from Proto-West Germanic *blāstu, from Proto-Germanic *blēstuz (“blowing, blast”). Cognate with West Frisian blast (“blast”...
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Trumpeters, / With brazen din blast you the city's ear.
To run a nucleotide sequence (for nucleic acids) or an amino acid sequence (for proteins) through a BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool).
Blasting nucleotide sequences is not always that easy, because there is more ambiguity to the nucleotide sequence, and good hits have to have a 70% homology over the whole sequence to be reliable, compared to 25% with proteins.
Alternative letter-case form of blast (to run a sequence through BLAST
This program is also capable of BLASTing sequencing results and works with most automated sequencing formats, alleviating the need for conversion of PC-based files.