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NCBI BLAST

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) is a powerful tool for comparing biological sequences, such as DNA, RNA, or protein sequences. It is widely used in bioinformatics for tasks like sequence alignment, gene identification, and functional annotation.

NCBI BLAST on Euler

Euler provides a local BLAST database at 

/cluster/project/clcgenomics/CLC_BLAST_DB
This database is a local copy of the NCBI BLAST database. It is updated weekly from the NCBI reference database, allowing users to perform BLAST searches without needing to connect to the NCBI servers. This significantly speeds up the search process and reduces network load.

The database can be used with any tool/library that supports this database format. For example: