FYI: Looks like they chose to use something similar to my patch for the x86_64. I will have RPMs up with it soon. -----Forwarded Message----- Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 13:51:35 -0500 BLAST 2.2.7 released BLAST 2.2.7 release notes Standalone BLAST is now available for amd64-linux. formatdb now restricts volume sizes to 1G on 32-bit platforms for performance reasons. The -A option has been removed from formatdb, that is, all databases will be created with ASN.1 deflines. tblastn query concatenation now works correctly on 64-bit platforms. The wwwblast source code has been merged into the C toolkit tree and is no longer distributed with the binaries. Source code can be obtained from: ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/toolbox/ncbi_tools/old/20040202/ncbi.tar.gz . Binaries can be obtained from: ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/executables/release/2.2.7/ . -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Scalable Informatics LLC, email: landman@scalableinformatics.com web : http://scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 612 4615