[Biopython-dev] Fwd: [blast-announce] Correction: BLAST 2.2.24 release announcement

[Peter]

Hi all,

The NCBI have just released a new version of BLAST+ (see below).

I've just updated the existing BLAST+ application wrappers for the minor
changes made in BLAST 2.2.24+.

Something potentially quite useful in this release is the blast_formatter
command for turning ASN.1 BLAST+ output (using –outfmt 11) into
any of the other output formats. i.e. If you are not sure what output
format will be most useful (e.g. plain text, XML, tabular) and rerunning
the BLAST is slow, the NCBI now let you run the BLAST once and save
it as ASN.1, then convert this to any other format on demand using
blast_formatter (which should be fast).

We should write a command line wrapper for this new tool...

Peter

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: mcginnis <mcginnis at ncbi.nlm.nih.gov>
Date: Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:46 PM
Subject: [blast-announce] Correction: BLAST 2.2.24 release announcement
To: NLM/NCBI List blast-announce <blast-announce at ncbi.nlm.nih.gov>


A new version of the stand-alone applications is available.

Users are encouraged to use the BLAST+ applications available at
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/executables/blast+/LATEST/
This release includes a number of bug fixes as well as new features
for the BLAST+ applications:

* Introduce BLAST Archive format to permit reformatting of stand-alone
BLAST searches with the blast_formatter(see BLAST+ user manual)
* Added the blast_formatter application (see BLAST+ user manual)
* Added support for translated subject soft masking in the BLAST databases
* Added support for the BLAST Trace-back operations (btop) output format
* Added command line options to blastdbcmd for listing available BLAST databases
* Improved performance of formatting of remote BLAST searches
* Use a consistent exit code for out of memory conditions
* Fixed bug in indexed megablast with multiple space-separated BLAST databases
* Fixed bugs in legacy_blast.pl, blastdbcmd, rpsblast, and makeblastdb
* Fixed Windows installer for 64-bit installations

BLAST+ applications, as well as the legacy C applications (e.g.
blastall), may be downloaded from
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/Blast.cgi?CMD=Web&PAGE_TYPE=BlastDocs&DOC_TYPE=Download