[Biopython] Virus alert during qblast()

Peter Cock p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com
Tue Apr 22 22:02:53 UTC 2014


Hi Michael,

That seems unlikely - but if you are doing hundreds of
automated BLAST queries, the NCBI might not be very
happy.

For big BLAST jobs, I would always use standalone
BLAST running locally (on your cluster if possible).
This is generally faster as well :)

Regards,

Peter

On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 10:59 PM, Michael Fethe <mfethe1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am submitting sequences to blast via biopython. My script
> runs over multiple hours and can take quite some time
> (working with hundreds of sequences). Is it possible for
> my computer or someone to mistake this script running
> as a virus since it writes my blast results to an output file
> and then submits my next sequence?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael Fethe
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