Entrez Genomes
BLAST 1.4
Old BLAST 1.4 Network Server Retired
The old BLAST 1.4 network server, which accounts for less than 3% of all BLAST jobs performed at NCBI, was retired on March 1, 2000. It was replaced by BLAST 2.0, which was designed to handle the increasing size and complexity of the sequence databases.
The following NCBI programs used BLAST 1.4 and will no longer function: blastcl2, blastcli, and PowerBlast outside of Sequin. Blastcl3, available at ftp://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/network/netblast, should be used instead. MacVector versions prior to 6.5.3 are also affected by this change.
This change will not affect the NCBI BLAST Web pages, e-mail server, GCG connection, blastcl3 client, PowerBlast within Sequin, or MacVector at release 6.5.3 and higher.
