AWS Marketplace: Basic Local Alignment Sequences Tool (BLAST) Databases

Basic Local Alignment Sequences Tool (BLAST) Databases

Provided by: National Library of Medicine (NLM) , part of the AWS Open Data Sponsorship Program

This product is part of the AWS Open Data Sponsorship Program and contains data sets that are publicly available for anyone to access and use. No subscription is required. Unless specifically stated in the applicable data set documentation, data sets available through the AWS Open Data Sponsorship Program are not provided and maintained by AWS.

Description

A centralized repository of pre-formatted BLAST databases created by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).

License

"NIH Genomic Data Sharing Policy "

Documentation

https://github.com/ncbi/blast_plus_docs

How to cite

Basic Local Alignment Sequences Tool (BLAST) Databases was accessed on DATE from https://registry.opendata.aws/ncbi-blast-databases .

Update frequency

Periodically

Support information

Managed by: National Library of Medicine (NLM)

Contact: https://support.nlm.nih.gov/support/create-case/

General AWS Data Exchange support

Resources on AWS

Description

BLAST databases with associated files in a public S3 bucket

Resource type

S3 Bucket

Amazon Resource Name (ARN)

arn:aws:s3:::ncbi-blast-databases

AWS Region

us-east-1

AWS CLI Access (No AWS account required)

aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://ncbi-blast-databases/

Usage examples

Publications

BLAST+: Architecture and Applications by Christiam Camacho 1 , George Coulouris, Vahram Avagyan, Ning Ma, Jason Papadopoulos, Kevin Bealer, Thomas L Madden
Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: A New Generation of Protein Database Search Programs by S F Altschul, T L Madden, A A Schäffer, J Zhang, Z Zhang, W Miller, D J Lipman

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