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).