Table 1.

Maximum data capacities of the BLAST interpreter programs*

Program	Maximal capacity	Input file
BlastViewer	~1.200.000 sequences	XML file (BLAST XML format, size ~2.1 GB )
JAMBLAST	~1.000.000 sequences	bls file (NOBLAST csv format, size ~290 MB)
BLASTGrabber	~2.200.000 sequences	bgr file (custom text format, size ~ 280 MB)

*as tested on a laptop computer; 1.4 GHz Core i5 2537 M processor, 4 GB of memory, SSD hard drive. Java heap space was set to 4 GB. On average, BLAST data consisted of 100 sequences pr. query.