FASTER at any sensitivity, more sensitive at any speed, the original gapped BLAST with statistics, providing the performance, features and reliability demanded by technical professionals:
The latest release is dated [22-Mar-2006]
and is free for academic and nonprofit use.
Licensing and download information is available
<here>.
If you're not using WU BLAST, you don't know what you're missing!
[07-Feb-2007]
Troubled by the letters “J”, “O” or “U” in amino acid sequences?
Read this.
[24-Aug-2006]
fast 64-bit binaries are now available for Apple “Core 2” systems, including the 8-core Mac Pro
[18-Mar-2006]
If system panics occur with 64-bit binaries under Mac OS X 10.4,
restrict searches to one CPU (cpus=1)
[02-Nov-2005]
New!
EXALIN — an improved spliced alignment program
[09-Jun-2005]
“Universal” binaries are now available for Mac OS X 10.4 on Intel and PowerPC processors
[21-May-2005]
64-bit Solaris™ X64 is now supported
[22-Mar-2005]
Tabular and XML output are now supported;
See the mformat option.
[10-Dec-2003]
Licensing
of BLAST 2.0 for academic and nonprofit use can now be performed on-line.
WU-BLAST is funded by the Department of Genetics in the School of Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis and by Warren Gish.
Development and support of WU-BLAST has been made possible in part by commercial licensing fees and by equipment loans, gifts or grants from Advanced Micro Devices, Apple, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel and Sun Microsystems, all of whose generous support is greatly appreciated.
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