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"Installing and Running NCBI BLAST" tutorial imported from the MSU course Analyzing Next Generation Sequencing Data (http://bioinformatics.msu.edu/ngs-summer-course-2011)
You should start this tutorial at a prompt that looks something like this::
root@ip-10-82-233-6:~#
Type 'cd' to go to your home directory on your EC2 machine.
Now, use your Web browser on your laptop to go to:
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/executables/LATEST
right- or control-click on the file ending with 'x64-linux.tar.gz', and
"copy link URL". This is the file for 64-bit (large) Linux machines, which
is what our EC2 instance is. (The current URL is: ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/executables/LATEST/ncbi-blast-2.2.25+-x64-linux.tar.gz)
Now use the 'curl' program to download it to your Amazon computer::
%% curl -O ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/executables/LATEST/ncbi-blast-2.2.25+-x64-linux.tar.gz
Here, 'curl' is a program that takes a Web link and downloads it via the
command line; in this case, it's grabbing that file and saving it into your
current directory.
After it completes, you should see the file in your local directory::
% ...
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