NCBI BLAST
NCBI Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) finds regions of similarity between biological sequences. The program compares nucleotide or protein sequences to sequence databases and calculates the statistical significance.[1]
Installed Versions
Picotte
NCBI BLAST+ 2.11.0 installed. Modulefile:
ncbi-blast/2.11.0
BLASTDB
On Picotte, the BLASTDB environment variable is set to:
/beegfs/blastdb
A regularly updated copy of all the BLAST databases is stored there.