Installing BLAST

Procedure

1. Use PuTTY to log in to the server as the root user.
2. Decompress the source package.

   tar zxvf ncbi-blast-2.9.0+-src.tar.gz

3. Go to the directory generated after the decompression.

   cd ncbi-blast-2.9.0+-src

4. Perform the compilation and installation.

   ./configure --prefix=/path/to/blast
   make -j
   make -j install

5. Load the environment variable.

   export PATH=/path/to/blast/bin:$PATH