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BLAST+

BLAST+ is a software module available on Comet.

BLAST+ overview

To access BLAST+ on Comet, run module load BLAST+. This will load the default version of BLAST+.

An overview of the module information is shown below (module -r spider ^BLAST+$):

BLAST+: BLAST+/2.16.0-gompi-2024a
    Description:
      Basic Local Alignment Search Tool, or BLAST, is an algorithm for comparing primary biological sequence information, such as the
      amino-acid sequences of different proteins or the nucleotides of DNA sequences.

     Other possible modules matches:
        BLAST

    This module can be loaded directly: module load BLAST+/2.16.0-gompi-2024a

    Help:
      
      Description
      ===========
      Basic Local Alignment Search Tool, or BLAST, is an algorithm
       for comparing primary biological sequence information, such as the amino-acid
       sequences of different proteins or the nucleotides of DNA sequences.
      
      More information
      ================
       - Homepage: https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
      

  To find other possible module matches execute:

      $ module -r spider '.*BLAST+.*'

If there are multiple versions of BLAST+ listed, then you can load a specific version as follows:

$ module load BLAST+/version_string

You can find the most up to date information whilst logged on to Comet by running module -r spider ^BLAST+$.


BLAST+ Help

The module BLAST+ has the following embedded help text (module help BLAST+):

Description
===========
Basic Local Alignment Search Tool, or BLAST, is an algorithm
 for comparing primary biological sequence information, such as the amino-acid
 sequences of different proteins or the nucleotides of DNA sequences.

More information
================
 - Homepage: https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/


BLAST+ Dependencies

The default version of the module BLAST+ has the following dependencies:


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