[BioPython] BLAST SNP access?

Michiel de Hoon mdehoon at c2b2.columbia.edu
Thu Mar 22 04:21:40 UTC 2007


Hi Zach,

Can you give us an example of how you currently query the BLAST SNP 
database (without using Biopython)? Just to get an idea of how different 
it is from current BLAST searches with Biopython.

--Michiel.

Zachary Zhipeng Sun wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>  
> 
> Thank you for the Bioython tools! They are proving increasingly useful in my
> research. I had a question regarding a tool extension, however - is there
> any link in biopython to query the BLAST SNP database, or does anyone know
> of this being under development? If not, I am not too familiar with the
> backend of biopython but I was looking to be able to automate BLAST SNP
> searches; does anyone have advice on how to start coding this into the
> biopython environment, or to a version of NCBIWWW.py ? Thanks for your help!
> 
>  
> 
> Best,
> 
> Zachary Sun
> 
>  
> 
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