BLAST

Introduction

In bioinformatics, BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) is an algorithm for comparing primary biological sequence information, such as the amino-acid sequences of proteins or the nucleotides of DNA sequences. A BLAST search enables a researcher to compare a query sequence with a library or database of sequences, and identify library sequences that resemble the query sequence above a certain threshold.

Installed version

The currently installed version is 2.2.26 and version 2.6.0.

Using BEDtools with the HPC Cluster

If you want to find out more about BEDtools on the HPC Cluster, you can use the command

module spider bedtools

This will show you basic informations e.g. a short description and the currently installed version.

To load the module, use the command

module load BEDTools

Always remember: this command is case sensitive!

After loading the module, you can use the program with

bedtools <subcommand> [options]

Documentation

The full documentation can be found here.