blastar: BLAST and Sequence Analysis Tools

Description: Provides streamlined tools for retrieving sequences from NCBI, performing sequence alignments (pairwise and multiple), and building phylogenetic trees. Implements the Needleman-Wunsch algorithm for global alignment (Needleman & Wunsch (1970) <doi:10.1016/0022-2836(70)90057-4>), Smith-Waterman for local alignment (Smith & Waterman (1981) <doi:10.1016/0022-2836(81)90087-5>), and Neighbor-Joining for tree construction (Saitou & Nei (1987) <doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a040454>).

Version: 0.1.1
Imports: rentrez, ape, Biostrings, dplyr, tibble
Suggests: msa, pwalign, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2026-01-14
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.blastar (may not be active yet)
Author: Loukas Theodosiou [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Loukas Theodosiou <theodosiou at evolbio.mpg.de>
BugReports: https://github.com/loukesio/blastar/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/loukesio/blastar
NeedsCompilation: no
CRAN checks: blastar results

Documentation:

Reference manual: blastar.html , blastar.pdf

Downloads:

Package source: blastar_0.1.1.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): blastar_0.1.1.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): blastar_0.1.1.tgz, r-release (x86_64): blastar_0.1.1.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): blastar_0.1.1.tgz

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