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Restrict blastp search to set of specific species

I want to perform a blastp search on a set of around 200 representative species with a list of known taxids. Is it possible using the web browser version of blast to efficiently limit my search without manually entering each of the taxid I wish to include?

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Is it possible using the web browser version of blast to efficiently limit my search without manually entering each of the taxid I wish to include?

I don't think so. You have to enter the taxID's in the organism box and use a + sign to add more than one. So says the in-line help.

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Yes this is possible as long as you are using version 5 of blast

blastp –db nt –query QUERY –taxidlist filehere  –outfmt 7 –out OUTPUT.tab

See more info here:

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