[Biopython] Blast.NCBIWWW qblast taxonID search space limitation

Michael S. Koeris michael.koeris at gmail.com
Thu Sep 24 15:34:35 UTC 2009


On Sep 24, 2009, at 11:09 AM, Peter wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Michael S. Koeris
> <michael.koeris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was wondering if a very useful feature of the web API is  
>> implemented in
>> the browser -> the ability to specifity the organism on top of the  
>> database.
>
> The NCBI BLAST website lets you specify an organism or use an Entrez
> query - you can do this via the QBlast API as well. See the mailing  
> list
> archive, e.g.
>
> http://lists.open-bio.org/pipermail/biopython/2009-August/005474.html

I saw the option to put in an [ORGANISM] but I was hoping I could use  
the TaxonID because say I want to BLAST all bacteria or all archea



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