[BioPython] Regarding Blast and its output parsing

[Iddo Friedberg]

Sameet Mehta wrote:

> Dear all,
> Can the entire qblast API be used with Biopython.  I just downloaded 
> and installed the latest version, before that i had installed the 
> latest CVS.  But there doesnt seem to be a way to blast a particular 
> genome using biopython.  Is there a way out.
>
> regards
> Sameet


It's slightly unclear what you are trying to do, and the actual answer 
would vary by that:

1) Are you trying to blast a single sequence (or a collection of 
sequences) against a genome? Or vice -versa?

2) Do you want to do this with a standalone BLAST, or over the web?

Best,

Iddo


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