Other useful resources
The BLAST web page hosted at NCBI
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST
Download pages for the BLAST programs
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST/download.shtml
Download pages for pre-formatted BLAST databases
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/db/
O'Reilly book on BLAST
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/blast/