In the context of BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool), a "hit" refers to:
a. A database sequence
A hit represents a sequence in the database that has significant similarity to the input or query sequence you are searching with.
What does the word ‘hit’ mean in the context of BLAST?
a. A database sequence
b. An input sequence
c. The query
d. The sequence I pasted to run my BLAST program
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