NAME

       eblast - perform a remote NCBI BLAST protein query (DEPRECATED)

SYNOPSIS

       eblast (edirect -blast)

DESCRIPTION

       Note:  eblast  will  not appear in future releases of NCBI Entrez Direct.  Instead, please
       use blastp -remote -db nr -outfmt 5 -query -.

       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).