PLAST

Description

plast website  

PLAST is a parallel alignment search tool for comparing large protein banks. PLAST runs 3 to 5 times faster than the NCBI-BLAST software when processing large amount of data.

The following features are currently available:

• Protein vs protein (plastp), protein vs nucleotide (tplastn),

nucleotide vs protein (plastx) and nucleotide vs nucleotide (tplastx) searches.

• Query filtering using SEG low complexity filters.
• Karlin-Altschul alignment statistics.
• Composition-based score adjustments as in Bioinformatics 21:902-911

for plastp and tplastn.

PLAST Source Code

Environment Modules

Run module spider plast to find out what environment modules are available for this application.

System Variables

• HPC_PLAST_DIR - installation directory

Citation

If you publish research that uses plast you have to cite it as follows:

Nguyen VH, Lavenier D. (2009) PLAST: parallel local alignment search tool for database comparison. BMC Bioinformatics, vol 10, no 329.