Why not use webblast? It is designed to do so. The current version runs on unix and windows9x/NT You can get it from http://www.genet.sickkids.on.ca/bioinfo_resources/software.html Alex. >Hi, > Is there a simple way to send off 200 blast searches to NCBI or other >server and have them return the results in HTML or text format? > >Thanks, > Chris