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rBLAST

This is the development version of rBLAST; for the stable release version, see rBLAST.

All versions 3.24 (devel), 3.23 (release), 3.22, 3.21, 3.20, 3.19

R Interface for the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool


Bioconductor version: Development (3.24)

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.

Author: Michael Hahsler [aut, cre] ORCID iD ORCID: 0000-0003-2716-1405 , Nagar Anurag [aut]

Maintainer: Michael Hahsler <mhahsler at lyle.smu.edu>

Citation (from within R, enter citation("rBLAST")):

Michael Hahsler, Nagar Anurag. rBLAST: R Interface for the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.rBLAST, R package version 1.9.4, https://bioconductor.org/packages/rBLAST.

Generated from the package metadata; it may differ from the package's own citation.

Installation

To install this package, start R (version "4.6") and enter:

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

## The following initializes the development version of Bioconductor
BiocManager::install(version = "devel")

BiocManager::install("rBLAST")

For older versions of R, please refer to the appropriate Bioconductor release.

Documentation

To view documentation for the version of this package installed in your system, start R and enter:

browseVignettes("rBLAST")
rBLAST: R Interface for the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool HTML R Script
Reference ManualPDF
NEWSText
INSTALLText

Details

biocViews Alignment, DataImport, Genetics, MultipleSequenceAlignment, SequenceMatching, Sequencing, Software
Version1.9.4
In Bioconductor sinceBioC 3.19 (R-4.4) (2.5 years)
License GPL-3
Depends Biostrings (>= 2.26.2)
Imports methods, utils, BiocFileCache
System Requirementsncbi-blast+
URLhttps://github.com/mhahsler/rBLAST
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/mhahsler/rBLAST/issues
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Suggests data.table, knitr, rmarkdown, testthat, withr
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Follow Installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source Package rBLAST_1.9.4.tar.gz
Windows Binary (x86_64) rBLAST_1.9.4.zip
macOS Binary (big-sur-x86_64) rBLAST_1.9.4.tgz
macOS Binary (sonoma-arm64) rBLAST_1.9.4.tgz
Source Repositorygit clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/rBLAST
Source Repository (Developer Access)git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/rBLAST
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/rBLAST/
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