A new article, BLAST+: architecture and applications, describes improvements for long sequences as well as other new BLAST features.
The BMC Bioinformatics article is available from http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/10/421/abstract and discusses changes to search chromsome length database sequences and long queries faster. The article also describes database masking, a more modular design, and new command-line applications.
The new command-line applications are available at http://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi?CMD=Web&PAGE_TYPE=BlastDocs&DOC_TYPE=Download
The BMC Bioinformatics article is available from http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/10/421/abstract and discusses changes to search chromsome length database sequences and long queries faster. The article also describes database masking, a more modular design, and new command-line applications.
The new command-line applications are available at http://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi?CMD=Web&PAGE_TYPE=BlastDocs&DOC_TYPE=Download