blaster: Native R Implementation of an Efficient BLAST-Like Algorithm

Implementation of an efficient BLAST-like sequence comparison algorithm, written in 'C++11' and using native R datatypes. Blaster is based on 'nsearch' - Schmid et al (2018) <doi:10.1101/399782>.

Version: 1.0.9
Imports: Rcpp (≥ 1.0.5)
LinkingTo: Rcpp
Published: 2026-04-25
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.blaster
Author: Manu Tamminen ORCID iD [aut, cre], Timothy Julian ORCID iD [aut], Aditya Jeevennavar ORCID iD [aut], Steven Schmid [aut]
Maintainer: Manu Tamminen <mavatam at utu.fi>
License: BSD_3_clause + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/tamminenlab/blaster
NeedsCompilation: yes
Materials: README
CRAN checks: blaster results

Documentation:

Reference manual: blaster.html , blaster.pdf

Downloads:

Package source: blaster_1.0.9.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-release: blaster_1.0.9.zip, r-oldrel: blaster_1.0.9.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): not available, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): not available, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available
Old sources: blaster archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse imports: ClustIRR

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