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Alternative To Local Blastplus To Blast 10000'S Sequences On Nr, Swissprot And Nt

Hi,

Here is a case scenario that happens quite often to me: I need to blast from 1,000 to 20,000 sequences in order to find the proteins these sequences code for. These sequences come from fish cDNA libraries, so I expect most of them, although not all, to code for proteins.

I presently use 'blastplus' locally to query both swissprot and nr, but this approach is not so satisfactory for a few reasons:

  1. It is very slow (up to a few days for nr)
  2. I would also like to query nt (I did not succeed, it took much too long)
  3. With a faster method, I would consider blasting a number of sequences a few orders of magnitudes higher

I was investigating the Usearch set of tools, but the ublast method cannot do the equivalent of a blastx, searching for nucleotide hits on a protein database.

What method would you suggest?

Cheers!


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