Official binaries are available directly from the UCSC server. Choose your specific machine type (e.g., linux.x86_64 or macOSX.x86_64 ).

There is no native Windows executable provided by UCSC. Users typically run it via Cygwin, a virtual machine, or the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).

If you prefer to compile it yourself, the source is available in the UCSC source tree under /kent/src/blat . Installation: Download the binary for your OS.

Developed by Jim Kent at UCSC, this version of BLAT (BLAST-like Alignment Tool) is a high-speed sequence alignment algorithm used to map DNA, RNA, or protein sequences to a reference genome.