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BLAST installed on Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Wed Dec 20 18:55:49 2006
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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 18:55:43 -0500
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
I have installed NCBI BLAST on Athena for Sun and Linux (standalone
and NCBI Web client). BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) is a
bioinformatics application for finding 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.
Usage can be complex- see http://web.mit.edu/blast_v2.2.15/README.athena
for details on how to run it and pointers to documentation.
For some simple "getting started" examples please read file
/mit/blast_v2.2.15/examples/README in the blast_v2.2.15 locker
(Web-accessible as http://web.mit.edu/blast_v2.2.15/examples/README).
Standalone BLAST will only be useful if you download and index your
own data sets.
BLAST can also be used via Web forms at the NCBI Web site.
Alex
