BLAST NR Support Self-compiled libraries and BLAST version 2.16

[mweberr]

Hi,
apparently there is a library called seqdb missing in BLAST version 2.16

BLAST2.11/lib/libseqdb.a
BLAST2.16 : NA

I dont know the reason why this library was eliminated, but it stops the DIAMOND compilation with BLAST support.

Best,
Michael

[bbuchfink]

Make sure to have libsqlite3-dev installed on the system prior to compiling BLAST.

[mweberr]

The most simple solution is to use the pre-compiled version wit BLAST support :)
http://github.com/bbuchfink/diamond/releases/download/v2.1.10/diamond-linux64.tar.gz

Why is the conda version different to the precompiled version from Gihub ?
https://anaconda.org/bioconda/diamond
It would be highly appreciated for usage in genomic pipeline context, if the conda version would be identical to the precompiled, due to the BLAST support.

Best, Michael

[bbuchfink]

To include blast db support in the conda version, I would have to depend on the bioconda blast package. This is not available for the Linux and macOS ARM64 architectures at the moment, see here:

https://github.com/bioconda/bioconda-recipes/blob/master/recipes/blast/meta.yaml

Apparently support for these architectures is pending due to some perl dependencies that have not yet been migrated. No idea what's going on with the migration there.