BLAST-Basic Local Alignment Search Tool

Standalone BLAST on Linux machine:

BLAST detects regions of local similarities between sequences.

• How to Create your own database and search for the desired sequence?

1. First way is wget on command line;

which is $   wget ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/blast/db/FASTA/nr.gz

      $ wget -c ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/blast/db/FASTA/nr.gz 

-c means to continue

1. NCBI ftp website