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 ==== Notes =====
-  * 1. Use the following to determine the date of a BLAST database:
+. Use the following to determine the date of a BLAST database:
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-  * 2: NCBI introduced database format version 5 in 2019 and these only work with BLAST tools starting from 2.9.0. They are no longer updating the version 4 databses, but we have preserved them in a separate directory if you are using tools that do not support version 5.
+. In 2019 [[https://ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2019/05/24/have-you-tried-blast-2-9-0-and-version-5-blast-databases-dbv5/|NCBI introduced BLAST database format version 5]] and these only work with BLAST tools starting from 2.9.0. NCBI are no longer updating the version 4 databases, but we have preserved them in a separate directory if you are using tools that do not support version 5:
+''/export/data/bio/ncbi/blast/db/v4''

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