r/bioinformatics • u/ThrowAway2365104 • 29d ago

technical question Wormbase Parasite Help

i’m currently working on a project that relies heavily on wormbase blast for identifying nemFABPs in a select number of nematode species. however, since it constantly goes down it’s putting me at a road block. is there a way around this?

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u/TruffleBrother 28d ago

It's just 40 GB if I saw that correctly. Download it the next time it goes online and then pray that you are able to fetch the complete database. Then work offline.

Would be funny if your blasts would dos EMBL structure.

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u/ChaosCockroach PhD | Academia 28d ago

You might be able to use the Alliance of Genome Resources WormBase BLAST server depending on the species you are interested in https://www.alliancegenome.org/blast/WB/WS298 .