[Biopython] How to restrict blast query to proteins of a certain species

[Kelly F Oakeson]

Hell list,
I would like to do something similar, but I would like to limit my  
blast search to just the microbial Taxonomic ID.

Thanks,

Kelly Oakeson
kelly.oakeson at utah.edu




On Aug 28, 2009, at 8:17 AM, bar tomas wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'd like to use blast to measure homology  between protein sequences  
> of a
> species and polyketide sequences from a database.
> I've been looking in the Biopython tutorial(p.73) in the section about
> blast.
> I'd like to do something similar,  like this:
>
> result_handle = NCBIWWW.qblast("blastp", "genbank", record.format 
> ("fasta"))
>
> Is it possible to add an option to restrict the search to genbank  
> records
> that correspond to a given species?
>
> Thanks very much
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