Import the modules for interfacing with BLAST and parsing the output
from Bio.Blast import NCBIWWW, NCBIXML
Blast the sequence of interest (in this case using the accession
number result_handle = NCBIWWW.qblast(“blastn”, “nr”, “8332116”)
Parse the resulting output
blast_record = NCBIXML.read(result_handle)
Loop over the alignments printing some output of interest
E_VALUE_THRESH = 0.004 for alignment in blast_record.alignments: for hsp in alignment.hsps: if hsp.expect < E_VALUE_THRESH: print print ‘**Alignment**’ print ‘sequence:’, alignment.title print ‘length:’, alignment.length print ‘e value:’, hsp.expect print hsp.query[0:75] + ‘…’ print hsp.match[0:75] + ‘…’ print hsp.sbjct[0:75] + ‘…’