TBLASTN on a large DNA database (352GB)
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I wonder if it possible to run command TBLASTN on a large metagenomic database(352G)? Wondering how long does it take if I m running on 4 cpus with memory available of 32G...
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USEARCH is "orders of magnitude faster than BLAST", so you might consider using that instead.
In a benchmark with 1,000 queries against a 15 Gb FASTA file containing 38.5 M proteins, USEARCH achieved a similar result to BLAST and finished in 9 minutes instead of 4.5 hours.
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