BLAST

BLAST is a software module available on Comet.

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/2.11.0-Linux_x86_64
    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/2.11.0-Linux_x86_64

    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$.

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/

There are no dependencies listed for BLAST

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