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blastar (version 0.1.1)

BLAST and Sequence Analysis Tools

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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) ), Smith-Waterman for local alignment (Smith & Waterman (1981) ), and Neighbor-Joining for tree construction (Saitou & Nei (1987) ).

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install.packages('blastar')

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0.1.1

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MIT + file LICENSE

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Maintainer

Loukas Theodosiou

Last Published

January 14th, 2026

Functions in blastar (0.1.1)

align_sequences

Align DNA Sequences (Pairwise or Multiple)
fetch_metadata

Fetch Metadata (and optionally sequence ranges) from NCBI
build_nj_tree

Build a Neighbor-Joining tree from a multiple sequence alignment