Bioperl: SeqAlign BLAST parsing

[Lincoln Stein]

I will be releasing a BLAST->XML translator later this week.  It will
handle both WUBLAST and NCBI BLAST.

Lincoln

Catherine Letondal writes:
 > 
 > "Andreas Matern" writes:
 > > With a local installation of the NCBI toolbox, one has the option of
 > > creating SeqAlign output for blast results.  Although obviously not meant to
 > > be human readable, the output does have the benefit of being more easily
 > > parsed than the conventional BLAST output.  Are any groups out there using
 > > the SeqAlign option of blastall?  Just wondering if I'm going down a
 > > dead-end road that someone else has already traveled.
 > 
 > A very, very useful feature would just be to have an XML Blast output. XML documents
 > are easy to parse, and benefit from a wide range of tools, __which allow to
 > build custom parsers__ at a little cost. Several biologists here at Pasteur
 > have already asked us (the computing center) about such a feature.
 > 
 > Sincerely,
 > 
 > 
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