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@@ -15,3 +15,9 @@ For details and citation, please see the BLAST+ user manual from the
program's web site and the article in BMC Bioinformatics.
This just repackages the binaries provided from upstream.
+
+NOTE ABOUT x86:
+Since version 2.2.31, NCBI does not provide 32-bit executables of
+BLAST+ for Linux. Their reasoning is that the limited memory and
+processing power of 32-bit systems is not suitable for the large
+databases searched by BLAST.