elastic-blast 1.4.0

ElasticBLAST runs BLAST searches faster by distributing its work to multiple cloud instances. This allows larger numbers of queries to be searched in less time compared to BLAST+ on a single host. Use of the cloud facilitates collaboration, sharing of results, datasets and pipelines on a common platform. The National Center for Biotechnology Information ([NCBI](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)), part of the National Library of Medicine at the NIH, developed and maintains ElasticBLAST.

ElasticBLAST runs BLAST searches faster by distributing its work to multiple cloud instances. This allows larger numbers of queries to be searched in less time compared to BLAST+ on a single host. Use of the cloud facilitates collaboration, sharing of results, datasets and pipelines on a common platform. The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), part of the National Library of Medicine at the NIH, developed and maintains ElasticBLAST.