A simple GUI to run blast on local databases (Python3 and wx.python)
What you have to do :
Install Python (for example 3.8.2) from python.org (Works also with Python 2.7 if already installed).
Install the wx.python utilities from https://pypi.org/project/wxPython/
This is done by using > pip install –U wxPython-version.whl
Put the win4blast.pyw file in a working directory
Change the default application for .pyw files to the python executive (an icon with a rocket in it) and for .txt files to wordpad (if not already default)
Or simply use the Windows installer
Install the latetst NCBI blast version from : https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/executables/blast+/LATEST/
Known Bugs : Blast still doesn’t allow white spaces in the path of its executables (makedb or blast)