[Bioperl-l] blast program to run locally on windows

Chris Fields cjfields at uiuc.edu
Tue Apr 25 16:14:46 UTC 2006


Use the NCBI win32 binaries and either download your database from NCBI or
build your own custom databases using formatdb:

http://www.ncbi.nih.gov/BLAST/download.shtml

More up-to-date help is available here:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/staff/tao/URLAPI/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/staff/tao/URLAPI/pc_setup.html

Instructions on how to format your own databases is here:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/staff/tao/URLAPI/formatdb_fastacmd.html

Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Raghunath Verabelli [mailto:iamvela at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:08 AM
> To: Chris Fields; 'Jason Stajich'
> Cc: bioperl-l at lists.open-bio.org
> Subject: blast program to run locally on windows
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I am looking for a blast program ('blastp') that I can
> run locally on windows platform instead of using
> NCBI's blast over web.
> 
> Do you know any such programs?
> 
> I checked Washington University's blast program, but
> looks like they do not support it on windows platform:
> http://blast.wustl.edu/blast/README.html#platforms
> 
> 
> Any other alternatives?
> 
> Please let me know if you are aware of any 'blastp'
> program equivalent to WU blast for Windows.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Raghu
> 
> 
> 
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