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How To Setup Local Blast?

Does anyone know of a comphrehensive guide for setting up local BLAST on ubuntu?

I don't find the NCBI guide to be very informative

I have a fasta file with 5500 sequences and I want to annotate them. I managed to install blast using apt-get, but have no idea how to setup a local blast database with the *.tar.gz files I downloaded from NCBI.

If someone know of a way of doing it in python, it would be very nice too. Biopython's documentation is not very helpful either.

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written by Stephen • Stephen

I think NCBI guide's, is very thorough and wonder, if some would answer very throughly unless writing a tutorial. Check for some blog posts, there are lot of them, I could found using google search engine, telling how to do it without fuss. Make some effort, if some problem while installing, ask again :)

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