Fwd: [blast-announce] A new version (2.6.0) of the BLAST+ executable is available.

If someone would like to check if our BLAST+ command
line wrappers need updating, that would be great.

Just running test_NCBI_BLAST_tools.py should say if
any tools have added/removed command line switches.

Peter

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Mcginnis, Scott (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [E] <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 6:07 PM
Subject: [blast-announce] A new version (2.6.0) of the BLAST+
executable is available.
To: NLM/NCBI List blast-announce <[email protected]>




A new version (2.6.0) of the BLAST+ executable is available.

This new version offers improved support for use of accession.version
as the primary NCBI identifier. The speed of blastdbcmd when dumping
information from a database (e.g., all GIs or all accessions) has been
improved. A number of other bug fixes and improvements are also
included. Future releases will continue to improve the support for
accession.version as the main NCBI identifier.

The release notes are at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK131777/

The new executables are available on the NCBI FTP site at
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/executables/LATEST