# blast mit Homebrew, Nix installieren Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für blast in AI-Agent-Workflows. ## Installation ```sh sudo av install brew:blast ``` Weitere Installationsbefehle: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install blast ``` Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata ### Linux - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#blast ``` Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/bl/blast/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Paketfakten - **Paketschlüssel:** brew:blast - **Paketmanager:** Homebrew - **Paketmanager-Seite:** - **Version:** 2.17.0 - **Quellzusammenfassung:** Basic Local Alignment Search Tool - **Homepage:** - **Upstream-Dokumentation:** - **Lizenz:** LicenseRef-Homebrew-public-domain - **Quellarchiv:** - **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-06-22T14:02:53-07:00 - **Generiert:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00 ## Executables - blast_formatter (cli) - blastdb_aliastool (cli) - blastdb_convert (cli) - blastdb_path (cli) - blastdbcheck (cli) - blastdbcmd (cli) - blastdbcp (cli) - blastn (cli) - blastp (cli) - blastx (cli) - cleanup-blastdb-volumes.py (cli) - convert2blastmask (cli) - datatool (cli) - deltablast (cli) - dustmasker (cli) - gc_cli (cli) - get_species_taxids.sh (cli) - legacy_blast.pl (cli) - lmdbxx_sample (cli) - makeblastdb (cli) - makeclusterdb (cli) - makembindex (cli) - makeprofiledb (cli) - project_tree_builder (cli) - psiblast (cli) - rpsblast (cli) - rpstblastn (cli) - run_with_lock (cli) - seedtop (cli) - segmasker (cli) - seqdb_demo (cli) - seqdb_perf (cli) - tax4blast (cli) - tblastn (cli) - tblastx (cli) - update_blastdb.pl (cli) - windowmasker (cli) - windowmasker_2.2.22_adapter.py (cli) - blast_formatter (Alias) - blastdb_aliastool (Alias) - blastdb_convert (Alias) - blastdb_path (Alias) - blastdbcheck (Alias) - blastdbcmd (Alias) - blastdbcp (Alias) - blastn (Alias) - blastp (Alias) - blastx (Alias) - cleanup-blastdb-volumes.py (Alias) - convert2blastmask (Alias) - datatool (Alias) - deltablast (Alias) - dustmasker (Alias) - gc_cli (Alias) - get_species_taxids.sh (Alias) - legacy_blast.pl (Alias) - lmdbxx_sample (Alias) - makeblastdb (Alias) - makeclusterdb (Alias) - makembindex (Alias) - makeprofiledb (Alias) - project_tree_builder (Alias) - psiblast (Alias) - rpsblast (Alias) - rpstblastn (Alias) - run_with_lock (Alias) - seedtop (Alias) - segmasker (Alias) - seqdb_demo (Alias) - seqdb_perf (Alias) - tax4blast (Alias) - tblastn (Alias) - tblastx (Alias) - update_blastdb.pl (Alias) - windowmasker (Alias) - windowmasker_2.2.22_adapter.py (Alias) ## Abhängigkeiten - libomp - lmdb - mbedtls@3 - pcre2 ## Von macOS bereitgestellte Bibliotheken - bzip2 - sqlite ## Installationsverhalten - Post-install-Hook: nicht definiert - Bottle: verfügbar auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux ## Version und Aktualität - Seite generiert: 2026-08-04 - Manager-Version: 2.17.0 - Manager aktualisiert: 2026-06-22 - lokale Daten: OK - Upstream-Repository: https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ - Info: Release/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories. ## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung BLAST, the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool, is one of the defining command-line programs of computational biology. It became the everyday sequence-search utility for comparing DNA and protein sequences against large databases, first through NCBI services and then through local command-line installations. ### Projektgeschichte NCBI's BLAST help references the 1990 Altschul, Gish, Miller, Myers, and Lipman paper that introduced the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool. The same NCBI reference list traces later BLAST-family milestones including gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST in 1997, MegaBLAST indexing work in 2008, BLAST+ architecture in 2008, DELTA-BLAST in 2012, Magic-BLAST in 2019, and ElasticBLAST in 2023. The command-line package distributed today is BLAST+, documented by NCBI's BLAST Command Line Applications User Manual. The developer information page identifies BLAST as public-domain software and points developers to the NCBI C++ Toolkit implementation, matching the public GitHub toolkit repository used for source distribution. ### Adoptionsgeschichte BLAST became a standard because it joined a fast heuristic alignment algorithm with NCBI's growing public sequence databases. Web BLAST made ad hoc searches accessible, while the command-line applications let labs, sequencing centers, and pipelines run repeatable local searches against custom databases. Package-manager adoption reflects that role: even when the upstream distribution is from NCBI rather than a typical single-purpose GitHub project, package managers keep `blastn`, `blastp`, `blastx`, `makeblastdb`, `blastdbcmd`, and related executables available as system tools for bioinformatics workflows. ### Wie es verwendet wird Common local workflows build a database with `makeblastdb`, search it with tools such as `blastn` or `blastp`, inspect databases with `blastdbcmd`, and format results with `blast_formatter`. NCBI also documents REST access for programmatic searches against hosted services. The package contains a family of executables rather than one command. That matters for reproducible science because database construction, masking, protein-vs-nucleotide search modes, profile searches, and output formatting are split into scriptable tools. ### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren For package nerds, BLAST is a canonical example of scientific infrastructure as a Unix package: many binaries, public-domain licensing, local database files, environment/config conventions, and a manual that is closer to laboratory protocol than app documentation. It is also a reminder that the most important command-line tools are not always developer tools. BLAST made local compute a practical front end to public biological databases, so packaging it well directly affected how biology labs automated sequence analysis. ### Zeitleiste - 1990: Original BLAST paper published. - 1997: Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST paper published. - 2008: NCBI BLAST Command Line Applications User Manual citation date and BLAST+ architecture paper appear. - 2012: DELTA-BLAST paper published. - 2019: Magic-BLAST paper published. - 2023: ElasticBLAST cloud-search paper published. ### Related projects - Related projects and descendants include PSI-BLAST, MegaBLAST, DELTA-BLAST, Magic-BLAST, ElasticBLAST, the NCBI C++ Toolkit, FASTA-family sequence search tools, and downstream workflow systems that wrap BLAST searches. ### Quellen - - - - ## Sicherheitshinweise infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal. - **Geiger-Risiko:** orange / mittel - infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal ## Configuration and credential file locations These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval. ## Configuration files - Unix: .ncbirc, ~/.ncbirc, $NCBI/.ncbirc, /etc/.ncbirc - Windows: ncbi.ini, %USERPROFILE%\ncbi.ini, %NCBI%\ncbi.ini, %SYSTEMROOT%\ncbi.ini ## Details aus der Quelldatenbank - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** blast - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 1 - **Conflicts With:** proj - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** stable ## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge - Nix - blast: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/bl/blast/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Verwandte Links - [Secret-risk packages](https://pkg.so/de/secret-risk-packages/) - Has protected-tool coverage, approval-gate, or non-low Geiger security signals. - [Terminal utility packages](https://pkg.so/de/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Text processing packages](https://pkg.so/de/text-processing-tools/) - Matched text, document, or structured-data processing metadata. - [Networking and protocol packages](https://pkg.so/de/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata. - [pcre2](https://pkg.so/de/brew/pcre2/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [lmdb](https://pkg.so/de/brew/lmdb/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [abricate](https://pkg.so/de/brew/abricate/) - Popular package that depends on this formula. - [minimap2](https://pkg.so/de/brew/minimap2/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: bioinformatics, cli, genomics, science, sequence-alignment. - [mummer](https://pkg.so/de/brew/mummer/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: bioinformatics, cli, genomics, science, sequence-alignment. - [minibwa](https://pkg.so/de/brew/minibwa/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: bioinformatics, cli, genomics, science, sequence-alignment. - [lastz](https://pkg.so/de/brew/lastz/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: bioinformatics, cli, genomics, science, sequence-alignment. - [samtools](https://pkg.so/de/brew/samtools/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: bioinformatics, cli, genomics, science. - [diamond](https://pkg.so/de/brew/diamond/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: bioinformatics, cli, science, sequence-alignment. - [bedtools](https://pkg.so/de/brew/bedtools/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: bioinformatics, cli, genomics, science. - [ropebwt3](https://pkg.so/de/brew/ropebwt3/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: bioinformatics, cli, genomics, libomp, science. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/blast.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/blast.yml) ## Quellen - pkg.so package database - Geiger risk classifier - package-page enrichment - curated configuration and credential file locations - curated package history - package version freshness - pkgdb category and tag curation - package relationship graph - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph