[BioPython] blastx works fine?

Peter biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk
Wed Jun 18 11:32:10 UTC 2008


In Nov 2005, Frank Kauff wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> qblast currently says it works only for blastp and blastn. Actually it
> seems to work fine with blastx as well - xml output parses well with
> NCBIXML. Or am I missing something?
>
> Frank

Yes, using BLASTX with the Biopython XML parser does seem to work.

In fact the NCBI (now) documentation explicitly lists blastn, blastp,
blastx, tblastn and tblastx so I updated Biopython's qblast function
to allow them too.  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST/Doc/node43.html

Fixed in Bio/Blast/NCBIWWW.py revision 1.50 - better late than never?

Peter



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