BLAST - for database similarity search

On the web (NCBI):	open in new windowhttps://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi
Using ssh on sure the BBCU server	blastall -p blastp -i query_seq -d database -o output

PDF open in new windowClick here to see a detailed list of BLAST programs.

The following BLAST programs are available (command line) on dapsas:

program	query sequence	database
blastn	DNA	DNA
blastp	protein	protein
megablast	long DNA	DNA
blastx	translated DNA	protein
tblastn	protein	translated DNA
psiblast (pgpblast)	protein	protein
phiblast	protein +pattern	protein
rps-blast	protein	CDD

BLAST servers world wide

• open in new windowVecScreen - identify vectors in your DNA sequence at NCBI
• open in new windowPrimerBlast Finding primers specific to your PCR template
• open in new window BLAST server (SIB)
• open in new windowWU-Blast download
• open in new windowBLAST - against Genomes at the Sanger Institute
• open in new windowWU-BLAST2 against Arabidopsis thaliana at TAIR or BLAST at TAIR
• open in new windowBLAST - search of OWL database
• open in new windowMS-BLAST - Mass Spectrometry driven BLAST at Harvard