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Faster version of RPS-BLAST (Reverse PSI-BLAST) USearch/Vsearch

I am using NCBI's RPS-blast for finding conserved domains in protein sequence data. Given that usearch/vsearch/diamond are orders of magnitude faster than NCBI's blast (although with somewhat lower accuracy), I was wondering if anyone knows if a faster implementation of RPS-blast exists.

With kind regards, Thomas

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You can try UProC, but this tools has seen very few usage, so it would be advisable to benchmark it with a few hundred proteins from your dataset and check it against RPS-Blast and HMMER+Pfam.

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