Download BLAST Software and Databases
Overview
The blast archives contain utilities that allow you to run searches on your own computer. The netblast archives contain a command-line network client that allows you to submit searches to NCBI. The wwwblast archives contain an example of a blast web server. Known bugs/workarounds may be found on the errata page.
Documentation is included in the archives and is available for browsing or download by FTP .
BLAST databases
BLAST databases are updated daily and may be downloaded via FTP from ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/db/. Database sets may be retrieved automatically with update_blastdb.pl . Please refer to the BLAST database documentation for more details.
Executables
| platform | blast | netblast | wwwblast |
|---|---|---|---|
| win32-ia32 | download | download | n/a |
| win64-x64 | download | download | n/a |
| linux-ia32 | download | download | download |
| linux-x64 | download | download | download |
| macosx-universal | download | download | download |
| solaris-sparc64 | download | download | download |
| solaris-x64 | download | download | download |
| freebsd-ia32 | download | download | download |
Older releases and executables for other platforms are available via FTP:
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/executables/