Treffer: blast2galaxy: a CLI and Python API for BLAST+ and DIAMOND searches on Galaxy servers.

Motivation The Galaxy workflow system is an open-source platform supporting data-intensive research in life sciences, featuring a user-friendly web interface for complex analyses without extensive programming. It also offers a representational state transfer based API, enabling remote execution of specific tools. Galaxy supports similarity searches for nucleotide and amino acid sequences, with integrated tools like NCBI BLAST+ and DIAMOND. However, no specialized software currently exists for convenient use of NCBI BLAST+ and DIAMOND via the Galaxy API. Results blast2galaxy is a Python package that uses the Galaxy API to run sequence alignments with NCBI BLAST+ and DIAMOND as Galaxy-wrapped tools on compatible servers. It includes a command-line interface that mirrors the CLI of BLAST+ and DIAMOND and a high-level Python API for direct alignments from Python applications. The package relies on bioblend for communication with the Galaxy API. Availability and implementation blast2galaxy is available as open-source software under the MIT license. The source code is available on Github: https://github.com/IPK-BIT/blast2galaxy. It can be installed from the Python Package Index using "pip install blast2galaxy" or from the Bioconda channel using "conda install -c bioconda blast2galaxy". Docker and Apptainer images are available and referenced in the documentation which is available under https://blast2galaxy.readthedocs.io. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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