[Biopython] BLAST against mouse genome only

Chris Fields cjfields at illinois.edu
Fri Jun 19 14:34:14 EDT 2009


On Jun 19, 2009, at 12:36 PM, Peter wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Peter Saffrey<pzs at dcs.gla.ac.uk>  
> wrote:
> Setting the expectation limits etc in Biopython will help, but if you
> are still consistently finding your BLAST jobs are too big to run
> over the internet (or your network/ISP), you'll probably have to
> install standalone BLAST instead. I'm not sure if these databases
> are available pre-built or not though...
>
> Peter

Depends on what you want, but mouse EST and genomic/transcript is  
available:

ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/blast/db

chris



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