How to: Automate BLAST searches performed on NCBI servers
Starting with a custom script that access the NCBI Web BLAST Service...
- Review the BLAST URL programming interface documentation for information on commands used to submit BLAST searches.
- Automated requests should be submitted no more than one every three seconds and should be restricted to weekends or between 9 pm and 5 am Eastern Time weekdays for large numbers of searches.
- The demonstration script web_blast.pl provides an example of how to use the URL interface.