diff --git a/uk/ac/sanger/artemis/components/RunBlastAtNCBI.java b/uk/ac/sanger/artemis/components/RunBlastAtNCBI.java
index 7258de379024f38abfc2389a8b12a8b782bed586..76d77f5aa6f9543840144d2ecbc0f977769ee264 100644
--- a/uk/ac/sanger/artemis/components/RunBlastAtNCBI.java
+++ b/uk/ac/sanger/artemis/components/RunBlastAtNCBI.java
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ class RunBlastAtNCBI extends Thread
     try
     {
       // Send data
-      URL url = new URL("http://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi");
+      URL url = new URL("https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi");
       URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
       conn.setDoOutput(true);
       OutputStreamWriter wr = new OutputStreamWriter(conn.getOutputStream());
@@ -258,4 +258,4 @@ class RunBlastAtNCBI extends Thread
     RunBlastAtNCBI blast= new RunBlastAtNCBI(data);
     blast.start();
   }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}