Overview

The blast archives contain utilities that allow you to run searches on your own computer. The netblast archives contain a command-line network client that allows you to submit searches to NCBI. The wwwblast archives contain an example of a blast web server. Known bugs/workarounds may be found on the errata page.

Documentation is included in the archives and is available for browsing or download by FTP .

BLAST databases

BLAST databases are updated daily and may be downloaded via FTP from ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/db/. Database sets may be retrieved automatically with update_blastdb.pl . Please refer to the BLAST database documentation for more details.

Executables

Older releases and executables for other platforms are available via FTP:

ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/executables/

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