# blat

## Summary

+ **Module Name:** blat
+ **Support Level:** Secondary Support
+ **Software Access Level:** Open Access
+ **Home Page:** [http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgBlat?command=start](http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgBlat?command=start)

## Software Description

BLAT, the BLAST-like alignment tool, is a DNA/Protein Sequence Analysis
program. It is designed to quickly find sequences of 95% and greater
similarity of length 40 bases or more.
## General Linux

To load this module for use in a Linux environment, you can run the command:

	module load blat

Depending on where you are working, there may be more than one version of blat available.
To see which modules are available for loading you can run:

	module avail blat