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# blastn

> Nucleotide-Nucleotide BLAST.
> More information: <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK279684/table/appendices.T.blastn_application_options/>.

- Align two or more sequences using megablast (default), with the e-value threshold of 1e-9, pairwise output format (default):

`blastn -query {{query.fa}} -subject {{subject.fa}} -evalue {{1e-9}}`

- Align two or more sequences using blastn:

`blastn -task blastn -query {{query.fa}} -subject {{subject.fa}}`

- Align two or more sequences, custom tabular output format, output to file:

`blastn -query {{query.fa}} -subject {{subject.fa}} -outfmt '{{6 qseqid qlen qstart qend sseqid slen sstart send bitscore evalue pident}}' -out {{output.tsv}}`

- Search nucleotide databases using a nucleotide query, 16 threads (CPUs) to use in the BLAST search, with a maximum number of 10 aligned sequences to keep:

`blastn -query {{query.fa}} -db {{path/to/blast_db}} -num_threads {{16}} -max_target_seqs {{10}}`

- Search the remote non-redundant nucleotide database using a nucleotide query:

`blastn -query {{query.fa}} -db {{nt}} -remote`

- Display help (use `-help` for detailed help):

`blastn -h`
