rpsblast

NCBI Blast legacy call script

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/rpsblast.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install ncbi-blast+-legacy
Ubuntu
apt-get install ncbi-blast+-legacy
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install ncbi-blast+-legacy
Fedora
dnf install ncbi-blast+
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ncbi-blast+-legacy
Raspbian
apt-get install ncbi-blast+-legacy
Dockerfile
dockerfile.run/rpsblast

ncbi-blast+-legacy

NCBI Blast legacy call script

This package adds some fake scripts to call NCBI+ programs with the NCBI blast command line. It makes use of the legacy_blast script in ncbi-blast+ package. To use those scripts, /usr/share/ncbi-blast+/bin must be added to the PATH.

blast2

Basic Local Alignment Search Tool

The famous sequence alignment program. This is "official" NCBI version, #2. The blastall executable allows you to give a nucleotide or protein sequence to the program. It is compared against databases and a summary of matches is returned to the user. Note that databases are not included in Debian; they must be retrieved manually.

ncbi-blast+

next generation suite of BLAST sequence search tools

The Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) is the most widely used sequence similarity tool. There are versions of BLAST that compare protein queries to protein databases, nucleotide queries to nucleotide databases, as well as versions that translate nucleotide queries or databases in all six frames and compare to protein databases or queries. PSI-BLAST produces a position-specific-scoring-matrix (PSSM) starting with a protein query, and then uses that PSSM to perform further searches. It is also possible to compare a protein or nucleotide query to a database of PSSM’s. The NCBI supports a BLAST web page at blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov as well as a network service.