[BioPython] BLAST from inside python code?

[Edwin Steele]

> There's got to be a faster way of running blast from a python program than
> simply
> writing a script to externally call blast and parse the results, over and
> over (for big data sets).
> Anybody know of any  BLAST wrapper for python? 

Are you after some sort of python API into the blast c libraries like the
sort of thing that SWIG would produce?

Edwin.
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