Requirements

• python 3.9, 3.11

• python3-distutils

ElasticBLAST has been tested on Linux and macOS. ElasticBLAST on Windows is not supported at this time. On a Windows machine you can use the Google or AWS Cloud Shells respectively.

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

• Google Cloud Command Line Interface

• kubectl: Please be sure to install a version supported by GCP (see this link for supported versions)

  • If you are using ElasticBLAST version 1.0.0, please follow the instructions in Specific Kubernetes version required for ElasticBLAST 1.0.0 users.

• gke-cloud-auth-plugin

• You are authenticated, have configured gcloud with the appropriate GCP project, and have the necessary permissions in that GCP project. If working on a newly created GCP instance, this likely requires running the command gcloud auth login.

  You can configure gcloud with the GCP project with the command gcloud config set project GCP_PROJECT_ID.

  • GCP permissions

    • GKE: to manage a kubernetes cluster on which to run ElasticBLAST.

    • GCS: to store results and query splits.

    • Permissions for Auto-shutdown feature

    Note: elastic-blast attempts to enable the relevant GCP APIs if they are not enabled already.

Please visit also our page with tips for GCP.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• You have AWS credentials available and have the necessary IAM permissions, which include the following AWS services:

  • Batch

  • EC2

  • ECS

  • S3

  • Permissions for Auto-shutdown feature

• Optional: AWS CLI SDK.