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PLAST

Description

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PLAST is a parallel alignment search tool for comparing large protein banks. PLAST runs 3 to 5 times faster than the NCBI-BLAST software when processing large amount of data. The following features are currently available: * Protein vs protein (plastp), protein vs nucleotide (tplastn), nucleotide vs protein (plastx) and nucleotide vs nucleotide (tplastx) searches. * Query filtering using SEG low complexity filters. * Karlin-Altschul alignment statistics. * Composition-based score adjustments as in Bioinformatics 21:902-911 for plastp and tplastn.

Environment Modules

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

Environment Variables

  • HPC_PLAST_DIR - installation directory
  • HPC_PLAST_BIN - executable directory

Citation

If you publish research that uses plast you have to cite it as follows:

Nguyen VH, Lavenier D. (2009) PLAST: parallel local alignment search tool for database comparison. BMC Bioinformatics, vol 10, no 329.

Categories

biology