Question

The second iteration of this program improved its efficiency by lowering the threshold to abandon its possible results. Particularly novel or divergent inputs to this program can be analyzed with its PSI (“P-S-I”) or Pfam (10[1])(“P-fam”) forms. This program aims to obtain results that maximize bit values while minimizing (10[1])E-values. (10[1]-5[1])Clustal is generally preferred (10[1])to this program when using multiple (-5[1])queries simultaneously. (10[1])Mismatches in this program are accounted for by calculating (10[1])similarity using a BLOSUM matrix. (10[2])This program is suffixed “n” or “p” (10[1])depending on whether its (10[1])plaintext or FASTA (“fasta”) input (10[1])contains either (10[1])4 (10[1])or 20 (10[1])different possible characters. This program hosted by NCBI (10[1])can create phylogenetic (10[3])trees based on (10[1])sequence homology (10[1])after (10[1])completion. For 10 points, name this search tool that performs sequence alignments on publicly available (10[1])genetic data. ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: BLAST [or basic local alignment search tool; accept BLASTn or nucleotide BLAST or BLASTp or protein BLAST; prompt on sequence alignment by asking “what program is being used to perform that process?”]
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Summary

2025 ACF Nationals04/19/2025Y24100%0%8%87.33

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Aiden DartleyRutgersColumbia A3310
Liam KusalikWaterloo AChicago A4610
David BassJohns HopkinsMIT4710
Rohan ShelkeUC Berkeley ANorthwestern47-5
Tony ChenToronto ANorth Carolina A5110
Rohan DalalGeorgia TechHarvard57-5
Shardul RaoMinnesotaCornell A5910
Raymond ChenToronto BChicago B6810
Jason ZhangToronto CIowa State7310
Neal JoshiWUSTL AIllinois A7310
Michał GerasimiukStanfordIndiana8010
James WangOttawaWUSTL B8410
Bryan UgazArizona StateLSE8810
Ryan SunUC Berkeley BFlorida9010
Andres CordobaYaleNYU9110
Russell NipBritish ColumbiaPenn State9310
Andy YuMarylandMichigan10110
Shiva TegullaUCFColumbia B10410
Yash MandaviaIllinois BOhio State10410
Orion KellerVirginia TechTexas10410
Henry BonWinona StateVirginia10710
Amogh KulkarniGeorgia StateWaterloo B10910
Soren HeydariNorth Carolina BVanderbilt11010
Sharath NarayanNorthwesternUC Berkeley A12510
Cade ReinbergerRITCornell B12810
Joy AnHarvardGeorgia Tech12810