[BioPython] BLAST/tutorial problems

[Jeffrey Chang]

On Jul 22, 2004, at 7:30 PM, Aaron Zschau wrote:

> I recently started having my program hang during the part that does 
> BLAST queries.

Yes, NCBI has recently changed their BLAST server, and broke the 
Biopython code.  It has been fixed now in the CVS version, which you 
can retrieve at:
http://cvs.biopython.org/

Please grab the latest NCBIWWW.py file from there, and save it over the 
older version.

The major change in this version is that this blast code has been 
deprecated in favor of the NCBI QBlast API, which should be more 
stable.  Thus, after you install the new file, change the NCBIWWW.blast 
call to NCBIWWW.qblast in your code.

Jeff