Description
The Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) finds regions of local similarity between sequences. The program compares nucleotide or protein sequences to sequence databases and calculates the statistical significance of matches. BLAST can be used to infer functional and evolutionary relationships between sequences as well as help identify members of gene families.
Note that NCBI recommends that you use BLAST+ instead of BLAST.
Home page
https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Documentation
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK279690/
License
GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE. Copyright (C) 1991, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
Usage
Use
module avail BLAST+
to see which versions of BLAST+ are available. Use
module load BLAST+/version
to get access to BLAST+.