[BiO BB] Primer BLAST
Philipp Pagel
p.pagel at gsf.de
Fri Nov 22 03:20:14 EST 2002
Hi!
> Theoretically I could BLAST each primer with stringent parameters and
> record the coordinates on the genome looking for matches with a Kb or
> two of one another. To do that manually would be quite tedious,
> especially when you consider that I'm only really interested in
> matches at the 3' end.
You don't have to use the Web-BLAST at NCBI - just download the BLAST
program and run it on your machine. With a little Perl (or Python or
...) magic you can extract the information you need.
You'll find the BLAST program here:
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/blast/executables/
And the databases are here:
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/blast/db/
If for some reason you can't or don't want to run BLAST locally you can
also access the NCBI BLAST server directly in your script. Look at
netblast (blastcl3): ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/blast/blastcl3/
or
Bioperl: http://bioperl.org/
cu
Philipp
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