On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 6:42 AM, Nilaksha Neththikumara <nilakshafreezon@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello all,
The newly developed blast+ wrappers seem to be very useful, but it seems like they do not contain the function to blast against remote servers instead of installing the databases locally. Am I missing something there? I need to do a remote search for a sequence within galaxy instance so I can automate the process. Help is much appreciated.
Thanks a lot, Nilaksha
Hi Nilaksha, You are correct, the BLAST+ wrappers for Galaxy don't currently support the -remote option to connect to the NCBI over the internet to run the searches there - we've talked about this though, and I've filed an issue to track this in future: https://github.com/peterjc/galaxy_blast/issues/39 What do you mean by you need remote search for automation? You can download all the NCBI managed databases like NT/NR locally, so most tasks can be done without the -remote option. Peter P.S. The BLAST+ wrappers aren't 'newly developed', work started way back in 2011 ;)