Maxwell : blast

The Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) finds 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.

Using BLAST

To initialize the environment use the module command:

# setup PATH and BLASTDB=/software/blast/db
module load maxwell blast

# run a simple query
blastp -db swissprot -query T1050.fasta -out results.out

The Installation contains blast+, a selection of databases and

• Magic-BLAST is a tool for mapping large next-generation RNA or DNA sequencing runs against a whole genome or transcriptome. Read more about Magic-BLAST at https://ncbi.github.io/magicblast.
• IgBLAST facilitates the analysis of immunoglobulin and T cell receptor variable domain sequences. For details please see the documentation at https://ncbi.github.io/igblast/ and the article in Nucleic Acids Research (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23671333).