Difference between revisions of "Blast"

Revision as of 21:22, 20 July 2015

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. See Blast Program Selection Guide and the main blast website for more details.

Required Modules

modules documentation

Serial

ncbi_blast

System Variables

HPC_{{#uppercase:blast}}_DIR - installation directory
BLASTDB - location of the blast databases.

Additional Information

We provide both NCBI BLAST+ and legacy blast binaries through the same modules.

BLAST databases

Follow the link to see the Information on the UFRC provided BLAST databases.

Performance

Performance comparison for the NCBI distributed binary 'blastn' vs binaries built by us from source using Intel's 2013 compiler or Open64 compiler.

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