blast-plus: Basic Local Alignment Search Tool

Contents

1. Overview of package
   1. General usage
2. Availability of package by cluster

Overview of package

General information about package

Package:	blast-plus
Description:	Basic Local Alignment Search Tool
For more information:	https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi
Categories:	Genomics
License:	Unknown

General usage information

BLAST+, the new version of the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool searches one or more nucleic acid or protein databases for sequences similar to one or more query sequences of any type

This module will add the various blast commands to your PATH.

The following environmental variables have been defined:

• \$BLASTPLUS_ROOT has been set to the root of the blast-plus installation
• \$BLASTPLUS_LIBDIR points to the directory containing the libraries
• \$BLASTPLUS_INCDIR points to the directory containing the header files

You will probably wish to use these by adding the following flags to your compilation command (e.g. to CFLAGS in your Makefile):

• -I\$BLASTPLUS_INCDIR

and the following flags to your link command (e.g. LDFLAGS in your Makefile):

• -L\$BLASTPLUS_LIBDIR -Wl,-rpath,\$BLASTPLUS_LIBDIR

Available versions of the package blast-plus, by cluster

This section lists the available versions of the package blast-pluson the different clusters.

Available versions of blast-plus on the Zaratab cluster

Available versions of blast-plus on the Zaratab cluster

Version	Module tags	CPU(s) optimized for	GPU ready?
2.9.0	blast-plus/2.9.0	zen	Y
2.13.0	blast-plus/2.13.0	icelake, x86_64, zen2	Y
2.12.0	blast-plus/2.12.0	zen2	Y

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