BLAST FASTA Files Will No Longer Be Available on the FTP Site Effective April 2024

Easily generate BLAST FASTA files yourself!  In April 2024, the FASTA (sequence text) files of the sequences in the Basic Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) databases will no longer be available on the FTP site. However, you can easily generate FASTA files yourself from the formatted BLAST databases by using the BLAST utility blastdbcmd that comes … Continue reading BLAST FASTA Files Will No Longer Be Available on the FTP Site Effective April 2024 →

Source: NCBI Insights - January 25, 2024 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) FASTA NCBI Taxonomy Source Type: news