The BLAST programs and databases are now cloud ready
NCBI now provides a dockerized version of BLAST that you can use on the cloud.BLAST workloads often come in bursts. You may want to search a large number of sequences all at once and need the results...
View ArticleNew BLAST Results is now the default view
Based on user feedback the New Results page is an overwhelming success. The new BLAST results page that has been available for testing since April is now the default results page. Thank you for your...
View ArticleNew nr database available with fewer redundant titles
We have made changes to the nr version 5 database, (nr_v5), to facilitate better search results and improved performance.We have reduced the number of redundant titles in the nr_v5 database used by...
View ArticleA New version of Magic-BLAST(1.5.0) is here.
The BLAST tool for mapping large next-generation RNA or DNA sequencing runs against a whole genome or transcriptome. Magic-BLAST, the BLAST tool that aligns next generation sequencing reads, has just...
View ArticleEnd of updates for BLAST+ version 4 databases (dbV4)
Start moving to the new version 5 databases!We recently updated the version 5 BLAST protein and nucleotide databases, (dbV5), on our FTP site to be accession-based. As we described in a previous...
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