[Bioperl-l] StandAloneBlast & BLAST+
Chris Fields
cjfields at illinois.edu
Wed Jul 28 12:56:41 UTC 2010
I'll be working on a 1.6.2 release very soon (had a slight delay due to problems with circular seqs). But BioPerl-Run and others will also be released as well.
On Jul 28, 2010, at 12:14 AM, Matthew Laird wrote:
> Thanks, good to know. Is there an estimate when it might be stable in the tarball for bioperl-run?
>
> I can handle grabbing it from git, however the root of my question is making PSORTb work with BLAST+ out of the box, I've already had one request. And not everyone who tries to install our software is as computationally inclined...
>
> Thanks for the work guys, we couldn't do it without Bioperl at the core.
>
> On 10-07-27 06:29 PM, Chris Fields wrote:
>> On Jul 27, 2010, at 6:55 PM, Matthew Laird wrote:
>>
>>> Good day,
>>>
>>> Hopefully a quick (and non-repeated) question. I can't quite tell from the docs, and based on my quick testing the answer appears to be no, but does Bio::Tools::Run::StandAloneBlast support BLAST+?
>>>
>>> Unfortunately the + sign in the name makes it a little hard to google. :)
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>
>> Mark Jensen wrote up a new set of modules that run BLAST+ (Bio::Tools::Run::StandAloneBlastPlus). I've used it quite a bit locally, and am trying to get our cluster switched over to it as well. It is not backward compatible with StandAloneBlast code, which is a feature, not a bug ;>
>>
>> Note that it is available in bioperl-run, not bioperl-live. Also best to get the github version for this. There is also a bit of online documentation on this:
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>> http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/HOWTO:BlastPlus
>>
>> chris
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