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ElasticBLAST, version |release|
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ElasticBLAST is a cloud-based tool to perform your BLAST searches faster and make you more effective.

ElasticBLAST is ideal for users who have a large number (thousands or more) of queries to BLAST or who prefer to use cloud infrastructure for their searches. It can run BLAST searches that cannot be done on `NCBI WebBLAST <https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi>`_ and runs them more quickly than stand-alone `BLAST+ <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK279690/>`_.

ElasticBLAST speeds up your work by distributing your searches across multiple cloud instances.  The ability to scale resources in this way allows large numbers of queries to be searched in a shorter time that you normally could with BLAST+.  

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (`NCBI <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/>`_), part of the National Library of Medicine at the NIH, develops and maintains ElasticBLAST.

**ElasticBLAST status:** beta

**Platforms available:** AWS, GCP (account required)

**Getting started:** Go to the :ref:`overview` or try out a :ref:`quickstart` and then explore the `demos <https://github.com/ncbi/elastic-blast-demos>`_.

**Citing ElasticBLAST:**

Camacho C, Boratyn GM, Joukov V, Vera Alvarez R, Madden TL. ElasticBLAST: accelerating sequence search via cloud computing. *BMC Bioinformatics*. 2023 Mar 26;24(1):117. doi: `10.1186/s12859-023-05245-9 <https://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12859-023-05245-9/>`_. PMID: `36967390 <https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36967390>`_;



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