Basic Local Alignment Sequences Tool (BLAST) Databases

Description

A centralized repository of pre-formatted BLAST databases created by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).

Update Frequency

Periodically

License

"NIH Genomic Data Sharing Policy"

Documentation

https://github.com/ncbi/blast_plus_docs

Managed By

National Library of Medicine (NLM)

See all datasets managed by National Library of Medicine (NLM).

Contact

https://support.nlm.nih.gov/support/create-case/

Usage Examples

Tools & Applications

• BLAST+ Docker by NCBI BLAST
  

Publications

• BLAST+: Architecture and Applications by Christiam Camacho 1 , George Coulouris, Vahram Avagyan, Ning Ma, Jason Papadopoulos, Kevin Bealer, Thomas L Madden
  
• Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: A New Generation of Protein Database Search Programs by S F Altschul, T L Madden, A A Schäffer, J Zhang, Z Zhang, W Miller, D J Lipman