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NCBI BLAST URL API boundary

Official-source access, authentication, request-shaping, freshness, legal, and interpretation boundaries for NCBI BLAST URL API.

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Evidence-backed facts

  1. The BLAST URL API submits sequence-similarity searches, checks asynchronous request status, and retrieves reports in supported text, XML, JSON, and alignment formats. informative
  2. Public requests require no account, while service use does not grant database curation, sequence ownership, computational priority, publication, or interpretation authority. informative
  3. Clients must bind program, database, query, search parameters, request identifier, polling cadence, format, and retention window and avoid rapid repeated submissions or status checks. informative
  4. Similarity scores depend on sequence quality, database release, program, parameters, composition, and statistics and do not prove homology, function, taxonomy, pathogenicity, or clinical relevance. informative