diff --git a/scripts/mlst-download_pub_mlst b/scripts/mlst-download_pub_mlst
index 710ca611..d1231d60 100755
--- a/scripts/mlst-download_pub_mlst
+++ b/scripts/mlst-download_pub_mlst
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ for URL in $(grep '<url>' $OUTDIR/dbases.xml); do
 #  echo $URL
   URL=${URL//<url>}
   URL=${URL//<\/url>}
-#  echo ${URL: -4}
   if [ ${URL:(-4)} = ".txt" ]; then
     PROFILE=$(basename $URL .txt)
     echo "# $PROFILE "
diff --git a/scripts/mlst-make_blast_db.pl b/scripts/mlst-make_blast_db.pl
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..ab67d9cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/mlst-make_blast_db.pl
@@ -0,0 +1,162 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env perl
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use File::Basename qw/fileparse basename dirname/;
+use Getopt::Long qw/GetOptions/;
+use Bio::SeqIO;
+use File::Find qw/find/;
+use FindBin qw/$RealBin/;
+
+local $0=$0;
+
+exit main();
+
+sub main{
+  my $settings={};
+  GetOptions($settings, qw(help filter! scheme=s)) or die $!;
+  $$settings{filter}//=1;
+  $$settings{scheme}//="";
+
+  # Make our directory structure
+  my $mlstDir="$RealBin/../db/pubmlst";
+  my $blastDir="$RealBin/../db/blast";
+  mkdir dirname($blastDir);
+  mkdir dirname($mlstDir);
+  mkdir $mlstDir;
+  mkdir $blastDir;
+  my $blastFile="$RealBin/mlst.fa";
+
+  die usage() if($$settings{help});
+
+  downloadPubMLST($mlstDir,$$settings{scheme});
+  combineBlastDb($blastFile,$mlstDir);
+
+  return 0;
+}
+
+sub downloadPubMLST{
+  my($mlstDir,$scheme)=@_;
+
+  mkdir $mlstDir;
+  system("wget --no-clobber -P '$mlstDir' http://pubmlst.org/data/dbases.xml");
+  die "ERROR downloading dbases.xml" if $?;
+
+  my $profile="";
+  my $profileDir="";
+  open(my $dbasesFh, "$mlstDir/dbases.xml") or die "ERROR could not read $mlstDir/dbases.xml: $!";
+  while(my $url=<$dbasesFh>){
+    # Remove the URL tags
+    $url=~s/<url>//;
+    $url=~s/<\/url>//;
+    chomp $url;
+
+    next if($url=~/^</); # <?xml version="1.0" ...
+
+    # Either get the profiles txt or the
+    # alleles tfa files.
+    my $ext=substr($url,-4,4); # last four characters
+    if($ext=~/\.txt/){
+      $profile=basename($url,$ext,".tfa",".txt");
+
+      # Don't download this profile if the user specified
+      # a specific one and this isn't it.
+      if($scheme && $profile ne $scheme){
+        # Nullify the profile variable so that the loci are
+        # skipped when it comes to the tfa files.
+        $profile="";
+        next;
+      }
+
+      $profileDir="$mlstDir/$profile";
+      print "$0: DOWNLOAD: $profile => $profileDir/\n";
+      mkdir $profileDir;
+
+      system("cd '$profileDir' && wget '$url' 2> /dev/null");
+      die if $?;
+    } elsif($ext=~/\.tfa/){
+      # Don't download the tfa files unless the profile
+      # is defined
+      if(!$profile){
+        print "WARNING: skipping $url\n";
+        next;
+      }
+      print "  $url => $profileDir/\n";
+      system("cd '$profileDir' && wget '$url' 2> /dev/null");
+      die if $?;
+    }
+  }
+  close $dbasesFh;
+}
+
+sub combineBlastDb{
+  my($blastFile,$mlstDir)=@_;
+
+  # Start fresh with a new combined file
+  unlink($blastFile);
+
+  # Use File::Find::find to locate all schemes and add them.
+  # To avoid using globals, use the sub{...} syntax.
+  find({no_chdir=>1, wanted=>sub{
+                       addScheme($blastFile);
+                     }
+  }, $mlstDir);
+    
+
+  system("makeblastdb -hash_index -in \"$blastFile\" -dbtype nucl -title \"PubMLST\" -parse_seqids");
+  die "ERROR with makeblastdb" if $?;
+}
+
+# This function is called by File::Find::find.
+#   $File::Find::dir is the current directory name
+#   $_ is the current filename within that directory
+#   $File::Find::name is the complete pathname to the file.
+sub addScheme{
+  my($blastFile)=@_;
+
+  my $schemePath=$File::Find::name;
+
+  # Only accept directory names
+  return if(!-d $schemePath);
+  #my $depth = tr|/||; # count slashes to get depth
+  #next if($depth > 1); # -maxdepth 1
+
+  # Append
+  my $seqout=Bio::SeqIO->new(-file=>">>$blastFile");
+
+  my $scheme=basename($schemePath);
+  print "$0: ADDING: $schemePath\n";
+  
+  for my $tfa(glob("$schemePath/*.tfa")){
+    my $seqin=Bio::SeqIO->new(-file=>$tfa, -format=>"fasta");
+    while(my $seq=$seqin->next_seq){
+      # Reformat the allele identifier so that it also has the scheme
+      my $id=$seq->id;
+      $id=~s/^/$scheme./;
+      $seq->id($id);
+
+      # Place all filtering into this if block
+      #if($$settings{filter}){
+      #  # Do not accept ridiculous alleles
+      #  next if($seq->seq=~/^(A+|C+|G+|T+)$/);
+      #}
+      $seqout->write_seq($seq);
+    }
+    $seqin->close;
+  }
+
+  # Flush the output so that makeblastdb is working on
+  # the total contents.
+  $seqout->close;
+}
+
+sub usage{
+  local $0=basename $0;
+  "$0: downloads the latest pubmlst databases.
+  To run, execute this file with no options.
+
+  --scheme  ''   Which schemes to download?
+                 Default: all databases
+                 For a listing, run `mlst --longlist | cut -f 1`
+  "
+}