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blast-plus

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Basic Local Alignment Search Tool. BLAST finds regions of similarity between biological sequences. The program compares nucleotide or protein sequences to sequence databases and calculates the statistical significance.

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  • Anvil: 2.12.0

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You can load the modules by:

module load blast-plus

Link to section 'BLAST Databases' of 'blast-plus' BLAST Databases

Local copies of the blast dabase can be found in the directory /anvil/datasets/ncbi/blast/latest. The environment varialbe BLASTDB was also set as /anvil/datasets/ncbi/blast/latest. If users want to use cdd_delta, env_nr, env_nt, nr, nt, pataa, patnt, pdbnt, refseq_protein, refseq_rna, swissprot, or tsa_nt databases, do not need to provide the database path. Instead, just use the format like this -db nr.

Link to section 'Example job' of 'blast-plus' Example job

To run bamtools our our clusters:

#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH -A myallocation     # Allocation name 
#SBATCH -t 20:00:00
#SBATCH -N 1
#SBATCH -n 24
#SBATCH -p PartitionName 
#SBATCH --job-name=blast
#SBATCH --mail-type=FAIL,BEGIN,END
#SBATCH --error=%x-%J-%u.err
#SBATCH --output=%x-%J-%u.out

module load blast-plus

blastp -query protein.fasta -db nr -out test_out -num_threads 4
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