Blastclust Standalone Download Address?

Question

[mpbchina]

I want to use BLASTClust, I only found a web server on this webpage:

http://toolkit.tuebingen.mpg.de/blastclust

But I didn't find where to download a standalone version.

The first link for searching BLASTClust in google is http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Web/Newsltr/Spring04/blastlab.html

It is an NCBI news, rather than a program. But it can been see from the news that there must be a standalone version of BLASTClust, since there are descriptions about the input/output, and parameters of the program.

It's strange to be unable to find a standalone version. Anyone helps?

Thank you very much!

Answer 1

[mpbchina]

I seems to have found the answer, BLASTClust seems to have been removed from the latest blast+ package. I will try to find it in the legacy.

A similar question is here: BLASTCLUST has been depreciated. Does anyone know why?

It is strange to see that BLASTClust is removed.

Answer 2

[PoGibas]

mpbchina, welcome to biostars!

I would recommend using CD-HIT ("program for clustering and comparing protein or nucleotide sequences") it should solve your problem. Or is there any special need for BLASTClust?

[mpbchina]

Thank you Pgibas. I know CD-HIT and I have its standalone version. I don't have special need for BLASTClust, I just want to have a try. Of course, CD-HIT is a solution.