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BLAT

Description

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BLAT is a BLAST-like alignment tool that was originally developed by Jim Kent for the UCSC genome browser. BLAT is extremely fast, but needs to use fasta or 2bit formatted reference databases such as found in see scratch 'fasta' and '2bit' directories. Cite: Kent WJ. BLAT - the BLAST-like alignment tool. Genome Res. 2002 Apr;12(4):656-64. Note: This build support both fasta and fastq files.

Environment Modules

Run module spider blat to find out what environment modules are available for this application.

Environment Variables

  • HPC_KENT_DIR - installation directory
  • HPC_KENT_BIN - executable directory

Categories

genomics