BLUTILS

Blutils (Blast Utils) is a BlastN wrapper developed to execute with hight performance on improve the native Blast parallelism. The main feature of Blutils is to allow users to generate consensus identities from multi-identity blast outputs.

Installation

Blutils package could be installed directly from crates.io using cargo:

cargo install blutils-cli

After installed, Blutils you should evoke it using the blu command.

blu --help

The output should be close to:

The CLI port of the blutils library

Usage: blu [OPTIONS] <COMMAND>

Commands:
  build-db  Build the blast database as a pre-requisite for the blastn command
  blastn    Execute the parallel blast and run consensus algorithm
  check     Check `Blutils` dependencies
  help      Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

Options:
      --log-level <LOG_LEVEL>

      --log-file <LOG_FILE>

      --log-format <LOG_FORMAT>
          [default: ansi]

          Possible values:
          - ansi:  ANSI format
          - jsonl: YAML format

  -t, --threads <THREADS>
          [default: 1]

  -h, --help
          Print help (see a summary with '-h')

  -V, --version
          Print version

Check dependencies

Blutils depends of Ncbi-Blast+ to be installed on the host system. To check if the host OS has these package installed run the Blutils checker for linux systems:

blu check linux

Note: Currently the system check is available only for linux systems and assumes that dependencies could be evoked directly from terminal.

Read the Book

The Blutils book is a comprehensive guide to the Blutils package. It is available in Blutils Book in GitHub.