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blast

BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) is an algorithm for comparing primary biological sequence information, such as the amino-acid sequences of different proteins or the nucleotides of DNA sequences. A BLAST search enables a researcher to compare a query sequence with a library or database of sequences, and identify library sequences that resemble the query sequence above a certain threshold.

Information

Usage

See versions of blast which are available

module avail blast

Installation

Notes from the sysadmin during installation:

$ cd /tmp
$ wget ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/executables/blast+/LATEST/ncbi-blast-2.2.30+-x64-linux.tar.gz
$ tar xf ncbi-blast-2.2.30+-x64-linux.tar.gz
$ sudo mv ncbi-blast-2.2.30+ /export/apps/blast/2.2.30+
$ sudo chown -R root:root /export/apps/blast/2.2.30+
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