A new version of IgBLAST (1.15.0) is here!

IgBLAST is a popular NCBI package for classifying and analyzing immunoglobulin (IG) and T cell receptor (TCR) variable domain sequences. We’ve released a new version (1.15.0) of IgBLAST with four new improvements / bug fixes:

  1. Support for the new framework region 4 (FWR4) annotation feature in the standard alignment formats and AIRR format.
  2. Renamed the previous “-penalty” parameter to -V_penalty to be consistent with other IgBLAST penalty options.
  3. Restored constant internal BLAST search parameters for domain annotation (i.e., FWR/CDR) so that this process is not influenced by user-provided parameters.
  4. Corrected FWR/CDR annotations for certain mouse VK and rat VH germline genes.

IgBLAST 1.15 is available for download from the BLAST FTP area. See the manual on GitHub for information about setting up and running IgBLAST.

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