[BioPython] Fwd: NCBI Abuse Activity with BioPython

Frederico Arnoldi fredgca at hotmail.com
Fri Jun 27 16:18:47 UTC 2008


Right, thanks for the answers.
If I understood, the problem is threading the requests. If I am not threading my requests I am not abusing NCBI server, so don't thread them.
Thanks again,
Fred
> >> 2)Do you have any recommendation for using it that it is not  
> >> included in the
> >> tutorial? Maybe listing some recommendations here would help.
> >
> > I would recommend running your own local BLAST server for any large
> > jobs - either the standalone blast tools, or if you have a machine on
> > the network that many people could share, run the WWW version locally.
> >
> > Peter
> 
> The above appears to submit a single job at a time and wait 3 sec.  
> between polling the server until the current job is finished.  I don't  
> think that is the problem indicated in the link above.  The 3 sec. is  
> for submitting new BLAST jobs, for instance if you want to submit one  
> BLAST request after another (gathering the RIDs), then grab all the  
> reports at once, or if you are threading 50 submission requests all at  
> once.
> 
> chris

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