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BLAST: Basic Local Alignment Search Tool
NCBI's BLAST is included in the Rocks Bio Roll where it is available on all HPC nodes, and in the GCG package where it is only available on the General Access head node.  It is the world's most popular sequence similarity search tool and can be used to find similarity between protein or nucleotide sequence queries and sequence databases, including various translated searches.

Using BLAST on HPC

The Rocks implementation of BLAST is described in the the Bio Roll documentation and through the BLAST --help command:

blastall --help 

The same BLAST databases are avaliable to the Rocks and GCG versions of BLAST:

    GenBank (genbank)
    GenPept (genpept)
    RefSeq RNA and Protein (rs_rna and rs_protein)
    UniProt (uniprot)

Consider using BLAST inside of GCG for ease of use, unless you need multiple nodes and/or scripting capability.

 
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