At the 23. of december 2008 the first offical release of BLASTScanner has been released. BLASTScanner is a small platform independent console application which translates BLAST-output of the NCBI-BLAST-tool into database code. No installation is required. Just download unpack and run. A single C-Source file is compiled into a very fast and very small application (~30kb). For instance a 20MB-BLAST-file can be translated in 2 seconds into database code suitable being piped into SQLite, MySQL or PostgreSQL-databases. You can download binaries for Win32, Linux32 and Linux64, Mac-OSX, OSF1 and Solaris as well as the C-code for compilation for your platform all together in a 79kb-Zip-file from the sourceforge project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bioscanners/