CaBLASTP
massachusetts institute of technology (mit)
computer science and artificial intelligence laboratory (csail)
theory of computation group (toc)

computation and biology group (compbio)

email queries cablastp@mit.edu



CaBLASTP is a suite of homology search tools, powered by compressively-accelerated protein BLAST (CaBLASTP), which are significantly faster than and comparably accurate to all known state-of- the-art tools including HHblits, DELTA-BLAST, and PSI-BLAST. Further, our tools are implemented in a manner that allows direct substitution into existing analysis pipelines. The key idea is that we introduce a local similarity-based compression scheme that allows us to operate directly on the compressed data. Importantly, CaBLASTP's runtime scales almost linearly in the amount of unique data, as opposed to current BLASTP variants which scale linearly in the size of the full protein database being searched. Our compressive algorithms will speed up many tasks such as protein structure prediction and orthology mapping which rely heavily on homology search.

Source code, binaries, and a compressed NCBI NR database are available here:

Note: if you wish to install from source, we do not recommend downloading the source code from here. Instead, install Go and run "go get github.com/BurntSushi/cablastp/...". More details are in the README file.