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The EMBL\u2010EBI Job Dispatcher framework helps meet this need by providing a single web\u2010based platform that offers many commonly used tools, including the BLAST, Clustal Omega, and EMBOSS programs. In this article, we provide a practical, easy\u2010to\u2010follow guide to the main tool categories available in Job Dispatcher, focusing on multiple sequence alignment and sequence similarity search. We present step\u2010by\u2010step workflows that demonstrate how to run these analyses directly on the web without installing any bioinformatics software. 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