[BioRuby] Remote blast not working?

[Rutger Vos]

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On Wednesday, March 16, 2011, Michael Barton <mail at michaelbarton.me.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm struggling to use the remote blast part of bioruby. I get errors using
> either the ddbj or genomenet versions. With genomenet I get an error about
> a nil response and with genomenet I get an error for 'cannot understand
> response'. I've tried different combinations of databases and options but keep
> getting the same problems.
>
> Bio::Blast::Remote.ddbj('blastp', 'nr-aa', '-e 0.001')
>
> Can anyone offer any suggestions?
>
> Cheers
>
> Mike
>

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