# NCBI BLAST URL API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/nih/ncbi-blast-url-api/  
**Provider:** National Institutes of Health (NIH) — https://apis.io/providers/nih/  
**Base URL:** https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/Blast.cgi  
**Documentation:** https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi?CMD=Web&PAGE_TYPE=BlastDocs&DOC_TYPE=DeveloperInfo

NCBI BLAST URL API is one of 15 APIs that [National Institutes of Health (NIH)](https://apis.io/providers/nih/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include BLAST, Sequence Alignment, Genomics, and Bioinformatics. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

API enabling developers to submit BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) sequence searches via HTTPS for processing at NCBI or cloud service providers, check job status, and retrieve results in multiple formats for sequence similarity analysis.

## Machine-readable artifacts (1)

- **Documentation** — https://ncbi.github.io/blast-cloud/dev/api.html

## Other National Institutes of Health (NIH) APIs (12)

- [NCBI E-utilities (Entrez Programming Utilities)](https://apis.io/apis/nih/ncbi-e-utilities-entrez-programming-utilities/)
- [PubChem Power User Gateway (PUG REST)](https://apis.io/apis/nih/pubchem-power-user-gateway-pug-rest/)
- [NIH RePORTER API](https://apis.io/apis/nih/nih-reporter-api/)
- [PubMed Central (PMC) OA API](https://apis.io/apis/nih/pubmed-central-pmc-oa-api/)
- [National Institutes of Health (NIH) BioSample API](https://apis.io/apis/nih/nih-biosample-api/)
- [National Institutes of Health (NIH) Gene API](https://apis.io/apis/nih/nih-gene-api/)
- [National Institutes of Health (NIH) Genome API](https://apis.io/apis/nih/nih-genome-api/)
- [National Institutes of Health (NIH) Organelle API](https://apis.io/apis/nih/nih-organelle-api/)
- [National Institutes of Health (NIH) Prokaryote API](https://apis.io/apis/nih/nih-prokaryote-api/)
- [National Institutes of Health (NIH) Stats API](https://apis.io/apis/nih/nih-stats-api/)
- [National Institutes of Health (NIH) Studies API](https://apis.io/apis/nih/nih-studies-api/)
- [National Institutes of Health (NIH) Taxonomy API](https://apis.io/apis/nih/nih-taxonomy-api/)

## Tags

BLAST, Sequence Alignment, Genomics, Bioinformatics

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