Quick reference

• The official blat docker image.
• Maintained by: openEuler CloudNative SIG.
• Where to get help: openEuler CloudNative SIG, openEuler.

blat | openEuler

blat is the cluster parallel version of BLAT (BLAST-Like Alignment Tool), a fast sequence search and alignment tool designed for genome comparisons. blat supports MPI and multi-thread hybrid parallel computing mode, enabling efficient large-scale genome sequence alignment tasks in cluster environments. blat provides:

• MPI-based distributed parallel computing across cluster nodes.
• Multi-thread hybrid parallel mode for improved throughput on single nodes.
• High-speed sequence mapping and alignment inherited from BLAT.
• Support for various input formats including FASTA and PSL. Learn more at blat.

Supported tags and respective Dockerfile links

The tag of each blat docker image is consist of the version of blat and the version of basic image. The details are as follows:

Tags	Currently	Architectures
1.1-oe2403sp3	blat 1.1 on openEuler 24.03-LTS-SP3	amd64, arm64

Usage

• Ensure that you have Docker installed, or are using Docker for Linux containers if on Windows.
• Obtain the blat docker image from DockerHub: docker pull openeuler/blat:{Tag}
• Run the Docker container to launch the blat environment. docker run -it openeuler/blat:{Tag}
• Verify the installation inside the container: blat -version

Question and answering

If you have any questions or want to use some special features, please submit an issue or a pull request on openeuler-docker-images.