Converting Blast Results In Fasta Format

Question

[Elmo]

Hi,

I "blast" my protein sequence against the NCBI database and I wish to save the returned results in FASTA format. Is there a way to convert the sequences all into FASTA format and save them or do I need to manually save them one by one? I'm sorry if I overlooked any of the selected option in the blast page. :(

Thank you in advance!

[Neilfws]

We've had a similar question to this before. What do you want to save: the full sequence of each hit, or just the aligned regions?

[Elmo]

The full sequence of each hit. I've got the answer already. Thank you for your time. :)

Answer 1

[Michael Kuhn]

On your NCBI BLAST result page, you should see the option "Select All". Click that, and then the "Get selected sequences" link next to it. This will take you to a list of all proteins, where you can click "Send to", "File" and select "FASTA" as format.

[Elmo]

That is so brilliant! Thank you so much! :)

Answer 2

[Daniel]

On the blast site, when in the list of matches there is a button in the top right corner saying 'Send to', then click 'file' and choose fasta format.

(My PI asked me this question just 2 days ago!)