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NCBI Blast

Category: Bioinformatics

Program on

zcluster

Version

2.2.26

Author / Distributor

NCBI

Description

BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool), more details at NCBI

Running Program

Also refer to Running Jobs on zcluster

Latest version /usr/local/ncbiblast/latest/ is pointed to /usr/local/ncbiblast/2.26

Example of a shell script blast.sh to run on at the batch queue:

 #!/bin/bash
 cd working_directory
 time /usr/local/ncbiblast/latest/bin/blastall -p blastn -d /db/ncbiblast/latest/nt -i QUERY -o out.QUERY 
 qsub -q queuename   ./blast.sh 
 sample of comments 

Documentation

NCBI website.

Installation

Executable binary code downloaded from NCBI Blast

System(s)

Unix