ILRI Research Computing

Parallel implementation of NCBI's BLAST algorithm.

http://wiki.bioinformatics.ucdavis.edu/index.php/MPI_Blast

• –nfrags=10 Specifies how many database fragments you want to split the original database into. This should be equal to how many different nodes you want to run mpiblast on.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/docs/update_blastdb.pl

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/staff/tao/URLAPI/blastdb.html