News:Clustered `nr` database is now available for web blast @NCBI

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[GenoMax]

Clustered nr database is now available via Experimental Database radio button for blastp searches. Currently only available via NCBI BLAST web page.

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Find details about how to participate by going to this link.

Clustered nr is the standard NCBI nr database clustered with each sequence within 90% identity and 90% length to other members of the cluster. Your BLAST search runs against a single representative sequence for each cluster. The representative is used as a title for the cluster and can be used to fetch all the other members.Clustered nr is smaller and more compact for searching. Results for a clustered nr search have more taxonomic depth than standard nr results. Clustered nr uses the MMseqs2 software

[Mensur Dlakic]

This is a nice service and should be very useful. Still, I don't think enabling only blastp for this option will make the most difference. It would cut down even more significantly on psi-blast searching because of multiple passes.