.TH EBLAST 1 2021-03-13 NCBI "NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual"
.SH NAME
eblast \- perform a remote NCBI BLAST protein query (DEPRECATED)
.SH SYNOPSIS
\fBeblast\fP (\fBedirect\ \-blast\fP)
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBNote:\fP \fBeblast\fP will not appear
in future releases of NCBI Entrez Direct.
Instead, please use \fBblastp \-remote \-db nr \-outfmt 5 \-query \-\fP.

\fBeblast\fP reads one or more FASTA\-formatted protein sequences
from standard input
and performs an online search for similar sequences
in NCBI's \fBnr\fP database,
yielding BLAST XML output on standard output.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR edirect (1),
.BR efetch (1),
.BR protein\-neighbors (1),
.BR xtract (1).