Category Archives: BLAST
Faster and Focused Searches with BLAST+ 2.15.0
New version now available Do you use NCBI’s standalone BLAST tool (BLAST+)? The latest version of BLAST+ is now available and includes two exciting new features! You can now run searches faster and focus your searches by organism more easily. What’s new? Run searches faster BLAST+ now runs 2-10x faster for small databases and … Continue reading Faster and Focused Searches with BLAST+ 2.15.0
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Top 3 reasons to use ElasticBLAST
ElasticBLAST is a new way to BLAST large numbers of queries, faster and on the cloud. Here are the top three reasons you should use ElasticBLAST: 1. ElasticBLAST can handle much LARGER queries! ElasticBLAST can search query sets that have hundreds to millions of sequences and against BLAST databases of all sizes. 2. ElasticBLAST is … Continue reading Top 3 reasons to use ElasticBLAST
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Save the Date: NCBI at the Bioinformatics Open Science Conference (BOSC), July 2022
Come visit NCBI at the Bioinformatics Open Science Conference (BOSC), part of the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology Conference (ISMB), July 13-16, taking place both in person in Madison, Wisconsin and virtually! We’ll be presenting talks and posters on the latest updates to the NCBI Datasets, BLAST, and Protein resources. You can also join us at … Continue reading Save the Date: NCBI at the Bioinformatics Open Science Conference (BOSC), July 2022
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Introducing ElasticBLAST – BLAST® is now easier, bigger, and faster on the Cloud!
ElasticBLAST is a new tool that helps you run BLAST searches on the cloud. ElasticBLAST is perfect for you if you have thousands to millions of queries to our Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST ®), or if you want to use cloud infrastructure for your searches. ElasticBLAST can handle large searches that are not … Continue reading Introducing ElasticBLAST – BLAST® is now easier, bigger, and faster on the Cloud!
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BLAST+ 2.12.0 now available with more efficient multithreaded searches
BLAST+ 2.12.0 programs feature better multithreaded searches and support a different threading model, threading by query, that can be more efficient in some situations. The new release is also fully compatible the increase in the numeric range for the GI identifier, which will take effect in the nucleotide database later this year. The list below … Continue reading BLAST+ 2.12.0 now available with more efficient multithreaded searches
NCBI on YouTube: RAPT and BLAST+ on the Cloud, SARS-CoV-2 genome data in Datasets
It’s time we do another roundup of what’s been happening on YouTube! First up, the NCBI YouTube channel has merged with the NLM YouTube channel. You’ll now be able to find diverse content all on one channel, from tips on using resources to fascinating moments in the history of medicine and more! Use RAPT, the … Continue reading NCBI on YouTube: RAPT and BLAST+ on the Cloud, SARS-CoV-2 genome data in Datasets
The Protein Family Model resource is now available!
The new Protein Family Model resource (Figure 1) provides a way for you to search across the evidence used by the NCBI annotation pipelines to name and classify proteins. You can find protein families by gene symbol, protein function, and many other terms. You have access to related proteins in the family and publications describing … Continue reading The Protein Family Model resource is now available!
December 9 Webinar: Using BLAST+ in Docker and on the cloud
Join us on December 9, 2020 to learn about containerized BLAST+ in Docker that is ready to use locally and in the cloud. We are staging BLAST databases in some cloud providers making running containerized BLAST as part of a pipeline in the cloud even easier. In this webinar you will learn about the advantages … Continue reading December 9 Webinar: Using BLAST+ in Docker and on the cloud
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Primer-BLAST now designs primers for a group of related sequences
Primer-BLAST now has a “Primers common for a group of sequences” submission tab that allows you to design primers for a group of highly similar sequences. For example, you may want test for expression of any transcript of gene rather than a specific splice variant, so you want to design primers to cover all transcript … Continue reading Primer-BLAST now designs primers for a group of related sequences
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New BLAST default parameters and search limits coming in September
To provide a more efficient BLAST experience for everyone, we’re changing some parameters and limits on the web BLAST service on September 8, 2020. The new settings, listed below, will improve overall performance and make search times more consistent. The … Continue reading
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