[Biopython-dev] [Biopython] Upcoming NCBI BLAST XML2 format

[Peter Cock]

On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 3:22 PM, Martin Mokrejs
<mmokrejs at fold.natur.cuni.cz> wrote:
> Hi,
>   are you aware of new changes in BLAST's XML format? Time for feedback
> before it emerges. ;-)
>
> ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/documents/NEWXML/xml2.pdf
>
> Martin

Yes, but thanks for double checking:

http://lists.open-bio.org/pipermail/biopython-dev/2015-May/020923.html

I'm a little nervous about the idea that BLAST+ will not provide single
(large) XML files for multiple-query searches, and instead appears to
be going to produce one file per query and a manifest xinclude file.

This sounds problematic for things like parsing via stdout.

What have you noticed?

Peter