BLAST specifications
- Unique identifier:
- OMICS_01436
- Interface:
- Web user interface
- Computer skills:
- Basic
- Maintained:
- Yes
- Name:
- Basic Local Alignment Search Tool
- Restrictions to use:
- None
- Stability:
- Stable
Subtools
- blastn
- tblastn
- blastx
- blastp
- tblastx
BLAST specifications
- Unique identifier:
- OMICS_01436
- Software type:
- Toolkit/Suite
- Restrictions to use:
- None
- Programming languages:
- C, C++
- Version:
- 2.6.0
- Source code URL:
- ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/executables/blast+/LATEST/
- Name:
- Basic Local Alignment Search Tool
- Interface:
- Command line interface
- Operating system:
- Unix/Linux, Mac OS, Windows
- Computer skills:
- Advanced
- Stability:
- Stable
Subtools
- blastn
- tblastn
- blastx
- blastp
- tblastx
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Additional information
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK279690/
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Publications
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(Altschul et al., 1997)
Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: a new generation of protein database search programs.
Nucleic Acids Res.
PMID: 9254694 -
(Altschul et al., 1990)
Basic local alignment search tool.
J Mol Biol.
PMID: 2231712 -
(Johnson et al., 2008)
NCBI BLAST: a better web interface.
Nucleic Acids Res.
PMID: 18440982 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn201 -
(Camacho et al., 2009)
BLAST+: architecture and applications.
BMC Bioinformatics.
PMID: 20003500 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-10-421
Institution(s)
National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Funding source(s)
This research was supported by the Intramural Research Program of the NIH, National Library of Medicine.
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The gold standard. Yes, there are newer alternatives, but I keep comming back to BLAST...
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