BLAST Studio v0.2.0
BLAST Studio v0.2.0
This release includes:
- RNA-Seq annotation workspace for trimmed or merged FASTQ/FASTQ.GZ inputs.
- Download progress panel with speed, time-left ETA, and estimated finish time.
- Recommended starter databases: core_nt for BLASTN and nr_cluster_seq for BLASTP.
- Direct ClusteredNR download support for nr_cluster_seq.
- Pairwise sequence comparison workflow using BLAST+ subject mode.
- Sequence text boxes that wrap pasted sequences without continuation hyphens.
- macOS universal DMG for Intel and Apple Silicon Macs.
The app still runs BLAST locally and does not bundle NCBI BLAST+ binaries or databases.