➞ AbstractThis poster will be presented live at BCC West.
Tom Madden, Christiam Camacho, Yuri Merezhuk, Yan Raytselis
National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health. Email: madden@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Project Website:
https://github.com/ncbi/blast_plus_docs
Source Code:
https://github.com/ncbi/docker/tree/master/blastLicense:
Public Domain The Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) is a very popular application for searching and aligning DNA and protein sequences. BLAST is widely used in many different environments and pipelines. In order to support these use cases better, we are now making a containerized version of BLAST, using Docker, available. This approach offers some advantages including a reproducible run-time environment and the ability to work with bioinformatics workflow languages such as CWL. Additionally, we are staging BLAST databases on some cloud providers, facilitating the use of these resources on the cloud. We discuss the advantages of a containerized version of BLAST and show examples using the containers we provide.
Additionally, we discuss work in progress on a Kubernetes based system to start our containerized version of BLAST on multiple machines in order to handle large search sets.
This research was supported by the Intramural Research Program of the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health.
