NCBI Blast Installer

The way bioinformatics programs should be...

NCBI Blast installer is a tool from Avalanche NextGen biology software package that automatically downloads and installs the latest NCBI Blast+ edition in your computer.

How to use it

Start NCBI Blast Installer. Press 'Check for latest version' to see if a new Blast version is available on NCBI web site.

If a new version is available, press 'Download and install' to get it.

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Requirements

• < 3MB of disk space
• < 30MB free RAM
• No Java, no .Net
• Windows XP and up
• No installation required

Portability

This software tool is really small so you can easily copy it on a floppy disk or USB flash stick and take it with you or send it to your colleagues via email.

Similar tools

• NCBI BLAST DB Downloader is a a freeware biology software tool that automates the NCBI BLAST DB download process.
• NextGen SFF/FastQ Workbench is an efficient and easy to use FastQ/SFF file viewer, editor, filter and converter.
• Sequence Dereplicator is a tool that allows you to dereplicate your Fasta sequences via sequence clustering.

Feedback/News list

This tool is . Please let us know how to make it better. We are interested in:

• Feature requests
• Platform you are interested in (Windows, Mac, Linux)
• A name for the program :)