[Biopython] Reading from binary BLAST db

Peter Cock p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com
Wed Mar 4 09:18:40 UTC 2015


On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 6:12 AM, Alexey Morozov
<alexeymorozov1991 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there any support for compiled BLAST databases (*.pin/*.phr/*.psq) I/O in
> biopython? I need to get complete sequences that match, not just hsps that
> Bio.Blast.NCBIXML can read.

No, but you can call the NCBI BLAST+ tool blastdbcmd to do this
(or fastacmd from legacy NCBI BLAST).

Peter


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