BLAT performs extremely fast mRNA/DNA alignments, and cross-species protein alignments.

• Version: 37x1
• Added: August, 2013
• Updated: January, 2023
• Link: http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/blatSpec.html

See versions of blat which are available:

$ module avail blat

Load one version into your environment and run it:

$ module load blat/37x1
$ blat

Notes from the sysadmin during installation:

$ cd /tmp
# Check version from readme at http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/linux.x86_64/blat
$ wget http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/linux.x86_64/blat/blat
$ sudo mkdir -p /export/apps/blat/37x1/bin
$ sudo cp blat /export/apps/blat/37x1/bin
$ sudo chmod +x /export/apps/blat/37x1/bin/blat