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Table 1 BLAST tool comparison

From: Windows .NET Network Distributed Basic Local Alignment Search Toolkit (W.ND-BLAST)

Program Name

Reference

Increase BLAST Performance

Freely Available

Distributed BLAST

GUI Based

GUI BLAST Results Viewer

GUI Database Formatter

OS Available1

Fault Recovery2

NCBI BLAST

1

N/A

yes

No

No

No

No

W,U

Low

BLAST++

5

yes

yes

No

No

No

No

W,U

Low

WU-BLAST

3

yes

yes

No

No

No

No

U,O

Low

DeCypher BLASTâ„¢

6

yes

No

No

yes

No

No

O

High

S-BLAST

7

yes

yes

yes

yes

No

No

W,U

High

BeoBLAST

8

yes

yes

yes

No

No

No

U

Medium

StarBLAST

9

No

No

No

yes

yes

yes

W

Low

mpiBLAST

4

yes

yes

yes

No

No

No

W,U

Low

Condor BLAST

10

yes

yes

yes

No

No

No

W,U

Medium

Soap-HT-BLAST

11

yes

yes

yes

yes

No

No

W,U

Medium

Paracel

12

yes

No

yes

yes

yes

No

U,O

Unknown

W.ND-BLAST

13

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

W

High

  1. 1 – W = Microsoft Windows, U = UNIX/LINUX, O = Other
  2. 2 – Based on ability to recover from node failure, master failure, and complete failure
  3. This table provides a list of many of the most popular BLAST programs as well as their major features. The primary goal of most BLAST packages is to increase the performance of the BLAST algorithm. There seems to be a dichotomy between increased performance and user friendliness that has been encapsulated within W.ND BLAST. W = Windows based, U = Unix/Linux based, O = Other