Speed up the blast option remove.

Question

[K.Gee]

Hello.

I want to blast multiples files, each one contains a different number of sequences against the nr database (online version). I didn't find any way to upload those files all at once, but only one per time. So I guess that there is no way to do it. Instead, I found an alternative through the command line using the option -remote in a loop. .

I am wondering if there is any way to boost up this command, for instance, by increasing the num of threads or something similar to what we can do when we use the blast locally?

Thank you in advance

Answer 1

[Mensur Dlakic]

In a word, no. With the -remote option you are using public NCBI resources. It would not be right if people got to choose the number of threads, because it would be abused.

[K.Gee]

Ok I see. Bad for me then :-) .. Thank you very for the response.