NCBI Magic-BLAST RNA-seq mapping tool

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Source code and Linux, MacOs, and Windows binaries

Download source code and Linux, MacOs, and Windows binaries from https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/executables/magicblast/LATEST

Bioconda

You can also install Magic-BLAST from Bioconda:

conda install -c bioconda magicblast

Docker

We also provide ncbi/magicblast docker image:

docker pull ncbi/magicblast

For more information about ncbi/magicblast image see https://github.com/ncbi/docker/tree/master/magicblast

Magic-BLAST is also a part of ncbi/blast-workbench image that contains additional tools: BLAST+ package (including makeblastdb program to create a BLAST database), and EDirect:

docker pull ncbi/blast-workbench

For more information about ncbi/blast-workbench image see https://github.com/ncbi/docker/tree/master/blast-workbench