EBLAST(1)

💖 NAME 💖

eblast — bestie, this one does a remote NCBI BLAST protein query, and yeah… it's DEPRECATED 😭 like it's giving "still here but on its way out" energy.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

eblast (edirect -blast)

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so first thing first, bestie — eblast is not showing up in future releases of NCBI Entrez Direct. She's being retired. So like, respectfully, use this instead:

blastp -remote -db nr -outfmt 5 -query -

that's the whole glow-up right there, no cap ✨

now, what does eblast actually do? She reads one or more FASTA-formatted protein sequences from standard input 📥, and then she goes online and does a whole search for similar sequences in NCBI's nr database 🌐🔍. And what comes back out? BLAST XML output on standard output 📤. periodt.

lowkey iconic behaviour for a deprecated girlie but okay 💅

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

• edirect(1)
• efetch(1)
• protein-neighbors(1)
• xtract(1)

soooo yeah that's the tea 🍓 — this page came to you straight from NCBI in the NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual, dated 2021-03-13. mwah, take care of her, she's deprecated 💜🦋✨