Installing BLAST
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We use the sequence search tool BLAST at several points in the course. This can be installed as follows:
Windows installation¶
- Download ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/executables/blast+/2.7.1/ncbi-blast-2.7.1+-win64.exe with your web browser. If that FTP links does not work, try HTTP instead http://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/executables/blast+/2.7.1/ncbi-blast-2.7.1+-win64.exe
- Run this installer using the defaults, it should put BLAST under
C:\Program Files\NCBI\blast-2.7.1+
- Test one of the BLAST programs can be run by executing the command
blastn -h
in the Git Bash terminal.