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I was looking for the best way to explain what is blast to people with no background in biology/bioinformatics.

I thought I could to say it's a search engine:
- Blast is the same as google, but for biological sequences instead of search terms.

Finally, NCBI's dbGaP (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=gap) has started making available data from various genome wide association studies. This will be an awesome resource for understanding the causes of complex diseases.