To cite package ‘blaster’ in publications use:

  Tamminen M, Julian T, Jeevennavar A, Schmid S (2026). _blaster:
  Native R Implementation of an Efficient BLAST-Like Algorithm_. R
  package version 1.0.9, <https://github.com/tamminenlab/blaster>.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Manual{,
    title = {blaster: Native R Implementation of an Efficient BLAST-Like Algorithm},
    author = {Manu Tamminen and Timothy Julian and Aditya Jeevennavar and Steven Schmid},
    year = {2026},
    note = {R package version 1.0.9},
    url = {https://github.com/tamminenlab/blaster},
  }