skills.homes logoskills.homescapability registry
home/categories/scientific-computing/gptomics-bioskills-database-access-blast-searches-skill-md
cd ..
scientific-computingresearch

bio-blast-searches

Run remote BLAST searches against NCBI databases using Biopython Bio.Blast. Use when identifying unknown sequences, finding homologs, or searching for sequence similarity against NCBI's nr/nt databases.

View Sourcescientific-computing
GPTomics
maintainer
GPTomics
Updated 2/13/2026
Stars
471
Forks
81
quick start

Installation and usage

Run remote BLAST searches against NCBI databases using Biopython Bio.Blast. Use when identifying unknown sequences, finding homologs, or searching for sequence similarity against NCBI's nr/nt databases.

Installation
$ install --globalskills.sh
Usage

Once installed, you can use this skill by running the following command in your terminal:

skills use bio-blast-searches