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The BLAST+ 2.10.0 release is now available from at FTP site. The new version offers the following improvements:

NCBI BLAST have added new columns to the Descriptions Table for web BLAST output.

Removing contaminated sequences using NCBI quality assurance tools

http:--www.biotechnology.jhu.edu- Tutorial for PSI-BLAST, an extension of BLAST that uses matrix algebra. BLAST is a cornerstone bioinformatics tool at NCBI. BLAST is the Basic Local Alignment Search tool and will protein and DNA sequences that are...

, managBlaSTorage: a fast package to parsee and store BLAST results

brig.sourceforge.net - BRIG is a free cross-platform (Windows/Mac/Unix) application that can display circular comparisons between a large number of genomes, with a focus on handling genome assembly data. The application is available at:...

Suppose we wanted to do something with all this BLAST output. Generally, that’s the case - you want to retrieve all matches, or do a reciprocal BLAST, or something. As with most programs that run on UNIX, the text output is in some specific...

The main advance is the ability to provide usage reports to NCBI to help us improve BLAST.

The Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) is a powerful bioinformatics program used to compare an input sequence (such as DNA, RNA, or protein sequences) against a database of sequences to find regions of similarity.

BLASTn output format 6 BLASTn maps DNA against DNA, for example gene sequences against a reference genomeblastn  -query genes.ffn  -subject genome.fna  -outfmt 6 BLASTn tabular output format 6 Column headers:qseqid sseqid pident...