This (experimental) Docker image contains the latest versions of the following NCBI software:

• BLAST+ command line applications
• MagicBLAST
• EDirect

Please see the NCBI BLAST+ Docker image documentation and replace ncbi/blast with ncbi/blast-workbench.

docker run --rm \ -v $HOME/queries:/blast/queries:rw \ ncbi/blast-workbench \ sh -c 'efetch -db protein -id NP_002377 -format fasta > /blast/queries/NP_002377.fsa'

You can verify the results of this command on the local host as follows:

ls -l $HOME/queries

The test.sh script shows some example commands.