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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.

References

[1] NCBI BLAST website