[Biopython] PSI-BLAST

[Peter Cock]

Senthil wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> According to the Biopython tutorial
> http://biopython.org/DIST/docs/tutorial/Tutorial.html#htoc93 (2 April
> 2011 version):
>
> "You can run the standalone verion of PSI-BLAST (the legacy NCBI
> command line tool blastpgp, or its replacement psiblast) using the
> wrappers in Bio.Blast.Applications module.
> At the time of writing, the NCBI do not appear to support tools
> running a PSI-BLAST search via the internet."
>
> HTH,
>
> Senthil
>

That might be possibly after all, see this information reported
recently by Fábio Madeira:

https://github.com/biopython/biopython/pull/12

It should be possible with any recent Biopython, Fabio's
change was to the documentation for the blast function
only. We'd want to update the tutorial too ideally.

Peter