RMBlast is a RepeatMasker compatible version of the standard NCBI BLAST suite. The primary difference between this distribution and the NCBI distribution is the addition of a new program "rmblastn" for use with RepeatMasker and RepeatModeler.

• Version: 2.11.0
• Added: February, 2015
• Updated: March, 2021
• Link: http://repeatmasker.org/RMBlast.html

See versions of rmblast which are available:

$ module avail rmblast

Load one version into your environment and run it:

$ module load rmblast/2.11.0
$ blastn

Notes from the sysadmin during installation:

$ cd /tmp
$ wget http://www.repeatmasker.org/rmblast-2.11.0+-x64-linux.tar.gz
$ tar xf rmblast-2.11.0+-x64-linux.tar.gz
$ sudo cp -r rmblast-2.11.0 /export/apps/rmblast/2.11.0