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rBLAST

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

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")):
Seminal Bioconductor project articles:

Huber W, Carey VJ, Gentleman R, Anders S, Carlson M, Carvalho BS, Bravo HC, Davis S, Gatto L, Girke T, Gottardo R, Hahne F, Hansen KD, Irizarry RA, Lawrence M, Love MI, MacDonald J, Obenchain V, Oleś AK, Pagès H, Reyes A, Shannon P, Smyth GK, Tenenbaum D, Waldron L, Morgan M (2015). "Orchestrating high-throughput genomic analysis with Bioconductor." Nature Methods, 12(2), 115–121. doi:10.1038/nmeth.3252.

Gentleman RC, Carey VJ, Bates DM, Bolstad B, Dettling M, Dudoit S, Ellis B, Gautier L, Ge Y, Gentry J, Hornik K, Hothorn T, Huber W, Iacus S, Irizarry R, Leisch F, Li C, Maechler M, Rossini AJ, Sawitzki G, Smith C, Smyth G, Tierney L, Yang JYH, Zhang J (2004). "Bioconductor: open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics." Genome Biology, 5(10), R80. doi:10.1186/gb-2004-5-10-r80.

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 Manual PDF
NEWS Text
INSTALL Text

Details

biocViews Alignment, DataImport, Genetics, SequenceMatching, Sequencing, Software
Version 1.9.0
In Bioconductor since BioC 3.19 (R-4.4) (2.5 years)
License GPL-3
Depends Biostrings(>= 2.26.2)
Imports methods, utils, BiocFileCache
System Requirements ncbi-blast+
URL https://github.com/mhahsler/rBLAST
Bug Reports https://github.com/mhahsler/rBLAST/issues
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Suggests knitr, rmarkdown, testthat
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Package Archives

Follow Installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source Package rBLAST_1.9.0.tar.gz
Windows Binary (x86_64) rBLAST_1.9.0.zip (64-bit only)
macOS Binary (big-sur-x86_64) rBLAST_1.9.0.tgz
macOS Binary (sonoma-arm64) rBLAST_1.9.0.tgz
Source Repository git clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/rBLAST
Source Repository (Developer Access) git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/rBLAST
Bioc Package Browser https://code.bioconductor.org/browse/rBLAST/
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/rBLAST/
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