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rBLAST

R Interface for the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool

Bioconductor version: 3.23 · Package version: 1.8.0

Seamlessly interfaces the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) running locally to search genetic sequence data bases. This work was partially supported by grant no. R21HG005912 from the National Human Genome Research Institute.

Installation

if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager")

BiocManager::install("rBLAST")

Details

MaintainerMichael Hahsler <mhahsler@lyle.smu.edu>
AuthorMichael Hahsler [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2716-1405>), Nagar Anurag [aut]
LicenseGPL-3
URLhttps://github.com/mhahsler/rBLAST
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/mhahsler/rBLAST/issues
System Requirementsncbi-blast+
Downloads rank295
Source branchRELEASE_3_23
biocViewsAlignment, DataImport, Genetics, SequenceMatching, Sequencing, Software

Documentation

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Dependencies

Depends: Biostrings (>= 2.26.2)

Imports: methods, utils, BiocFileCache

Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, testthat

Reverse dependencies

Imports Me (1): ClustIRR