NAME

       eblast - perform a remote NCBI BLAST protein query

SYNOPSIS

       eblast (edirect -blast)

DESCRIPTION

       eblast  reads  one  or  more  FASTA-formatted  protein  sequences  from standard input and
       performs an online search for similar sequences in NCBI's nr database, yielding BLAST  XML
       output on standard output.

SEE ALSO

       edirect(1), efetch(1), protein-neighbors(1), xtract(1).