[Biopython-dev] Fwd: [blast-announce] BLAST 2.2.20 now available

[Peter]

Hi all,

There is a new version of BLAST out - we'll need to check if the
NCBI's online server has been updated (if so, our unit test
test_NCBI_qblast.py  should catch any obvious issues).

We'll also want to check the standalone version of BLAST is OK.

Point (2) below sounds interesting, previously using BLAST databases
with spaces in the path on Windows was rather hairy.

Peter

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: mcginnis <mcginnis at ncbi.nlm.nih.gov>
Date: Apr 7, 2009 1:50 PM
Subject: [blast-announce] BLAST 2.2.20 now available
To: blast-announce at ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

New BLAST binaries are available on the NCBI FTP site
(ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/executables/LATEST/)

The list of changes are:

1.) Ungapped blastn searches allow arbitrary reward/penalty scores.
2.) Spaces are allowed in database pathnames on windows
3.) Seedtop now has gilist support.
4.) Fix a bug that caused the number and order of queries to affect
blastx results.
5.) Modified the 2-hit blastn algorithm so that no overlap is allowed
between hits.