Webinar:NCBI BLAST in the Cloud

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BLAST Searches at a Cloud Provider:

The NCBI is experimenting with providing a BLAST machine image (AMI) hosted at Amazon Web Services (AWS). This AMI allows users to run stand-alone searches with the BLAST+ applications, submit searches through a subset of the NCBI-BLAST URL API, and perform searches with a simplified webpage. The AMI also includes a FUSE client that can download BLAST databases during the first search. The AMI uses HVM (Hardware Virtual Machine) and runs on LINUX (Ubuntu). This page provides links to the latest AMI as well as links to documentation about BLAST and the AMI

About Webinar:BLAST in the Cloud

  • Presented July 30, 2014 and covering: an NCBI BLAST AMI at Amazon Web Services; introduction to AWS and setting up an instance; running command line BLAST and using the BLAST URL API via the AMI; and answers to attendee questions.

The most recent BLAST+ AMI

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Resources:

The NCBI is experimenting with providing a BLAST machine image (AMI) hosted at Amazon Web Services (AWS). This AMI allows users to run stand-alone searches with the BLAST+ applications, submit searches through a subset of the NCBI-BLAST URL API, and perform searches with a simplified webpage. The AMI also includes a FUSE client that can download BLAST databases during the first search. The AMI uses HVM (Hardware Virtual Machine) and runs on LINUX (Ubuntu).