Bioinformatics Running BLAST Queries and Performing Sequence Alignment with Biopython

In Day 4 of 12 days of Biopython, I am going to show you how to run queries against the online version of BLAST. I am going to show you how to make the connection to NCBI BLAST and how to query with the BLASTN program nucleotide database. And lastly, how to get alignments by parsing to get the results of your BLAST query. Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:23 What is BLAST and what is used for? 0:47 Biopython Bio.Blast for BLAST operations 1:00 NCBIWWW qblast function 1:37 qblast search nucleotide database with blastn program 2:40 What is in BLAST record returned with query 3:38 Outro You can link to the Github code here. My channel is aimed at everyone interested in Computer Science applications in biology. The mission is to simplify Bioinformatics concepts, one video at a time! Follow me on Twitter.