Blast is largely glue between already established software projects. It could not exist without them. If you use Blast, you must acknowledge and cite all of the following projects which Blast uses. Blast is based upon work supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under Grant No. 80NSSC21K0834 issued through the Astrophysics Data Analysis Program.
The public deployment of Blast at https://blast.scimma.org is built and maintained by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and it is hosted on cyberinfrastructure provided by the NSF ACCESS program.