Search for WGS Sequences using Stand-alone BLAST
It is now much easier to search WGS (Whole Genome Shotgun) with stand-alone BLAST on your own computer. New tools from the NCBI allow you to BLAST just the WGS projects you are interested in. You can also search a taxonomic subset of WGS (e.g., all human or all bacterial sequences). These new tools for WGS make the existing search mechanism obsolete.
As of August 5, 2016, the current single WGS BLAST database will be retired from the NCBI FTP site and BLAST server. We suggest moving to the new tools as soon as possible.
This announcement is from NCBI News.
