NCBI BLAST DB Downloader

The way bioinformatics should be...

Freeware

Description

Target database are a key component of a standalone BLAST setup. A common set of pre-formatted NCBI BLAST databases is available from NCBI. NCBI BLAST DB Downloader is a a freeware tool that automates the NCBI BLAST DB download process. It automatically downloads and unpacks the selected NCBI Blast databases from NCBI ftp server.

Note: Databases can also be prepared de novo from custom FASTA sequences locally using our Database Builder utility.

Features

• User can choose which DB to download
• User can choose where to download the databases
• User can enter the path where Blast is installed
• Usee can choose the Temp folder
• Show download progress, estimated time to finish the download, download speed (kb/sec)
• Check if enough disks pace before download
• Allow resuming the download
• Remember GUI settings upon restart
• Announce user when a new DB is available (on NCBI ftp)
• Automatically start download upon program start up

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Requirements

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

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.

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• NCBI Blaster (aka BLAST Robot) is a software tool that automates the NCBI BLAST search processes.

Feedback

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 :)