README-blastn

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The NCBI SRA ( Sequence Read Archive )


Stand-alone BLAST searches against SRA runs in their native format.
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blastn_vdb and tblastn_vdb binaries are now distributed and supported
by Blast team.
BLAST+ 2.13.0 was released on March 11, 2022.

See https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/executables/blast+/LATEST/
E-mail blast-help@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov with questions or comments.