What it does

Calls the NCBI BLAST+ blastdbcmd command line tool with the -info switch to give summary information about a BLAST database, such as the size (number of sequences and total length) and date.

References

If you use this Galaxy tool in work leading to a scientific publication please cite the following papers:

Peter J. A. Cock, John M. Chilton, Björn Grüning, James E. Johnson, Nicola Soranzo (2015). NCBI BLAST+ integrated into Galaxy. GigaScience 4:39 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13742-015-0080-7

Christiam Camacho et al. (2009). BLAST+: architecture and applications. BMC Bioinformatics 15;10:421. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-10-421

This wrapper is available to install into other Galaxy Instances via the Galaxy Tool Shed at http://toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/view/devteam/ncbi_blast_plus