Current version: 2.2.13

BLAST, and its other versions (Mega Blast, Psi/Phi-Blast, and RPS-Blast), are the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) sequence similarity search tools designed to provide a method for rapid searching of nucleotide and protein databases to support the comparison of new sequences against previously characterized sequences.

NOTE: As of May 2007 we have discnotinued the stand-alone web based version.

CHPC still maintains the command line version of Blast on arches for groups needing to do a large number of searches via the batch system.

Scripts exist to automate the search process. For questions about this process and/or problems with the CHPC installation contact Anita Orendt.

For more information on BLAST, including tutorials, go to the NCBI web site: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST/