WashU School of Medicine WU BLAST
Welcome to the Washington University BLAST Archives
Serving the world community since 1995; Now celebrating more than a decade of fast gapped alignments with statistics

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!

Announcements

[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.

General and specialized search services running WU BLAST 2.0

Documentation and manuscripts viewable with Acrobat Reader

Software that layers on top of BLAST

BLAST support programs

Miscellaneous

Archived, public domain source code of old versions of BLAST

Related sites

Acknowledgements

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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