[Biopython] PSI-BLAST help

Matthew Strand stran104 at chapman.edu
Sat Jan 2 19:17:07 UTC 2010


I'm no expert here but unfortunately you'll probably have to build your own
database to do that. It's not biopython's fault since it just wraps
PSI-BLAST and as far as I know PSI-BLAST is only made to search against one
database. Perhaps someone else will have a different solution.

On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Alaguraj Veluchamy <alaguraj.v at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear all,
> I have a problem in database search using PSI-BLAST.
> I have to do PSI-BLAST against combined "nr" and "environmental
> sequences(env_nr)" databases.
> I need to iterate 10 rounds.
> Web services allow selecting one database at a time.
>
> Do Biopython offers search against multiple databases.
> I am unable to find any simple way to do this.
>
> Regards,
> Alaguraj.V
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