[Bioperl-l] reading blast report
Jason Stajich
jason at bioperl.org
Thu Jan 14 19:53:29 UTC 2010
What aspects of the report are you loading? You might consider the
blast report as tab-delimited (-m 8 format) if you only are interested
in start/end positions and scores of ailgnments which is a simpler and
reduced dataset that has lower memory footprint by the parser.
Searchio (default) -format => blast - you can try the BLAST -format =>
blast_pull instead which lazy parses to create objects and will reduce
memory consumption.
-jason
On Jan 14, 2010, at 11:15 AM, Siddhartha Basu wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a script that reads a tblastn report(13000 records) and loads
> in
> a chado database(Bio::Chado::Schema module), however the machine
> runs of memory. I am trying to figure
> out other than loading the database stuff
> if it the reading of SearchIO module could consume a lot of memory.
> So,
> when i am reading a blast file and getting the result object ....
>
> while (my $result = $searchio->next_result)
>
> * Does the searchio object loads a huge chunk of file in the memory or
> for each iteration it only reads a part of the result.
>
> * Does doing an index on blast report and then reading from it be much
> faster and why. And is there any way i could iterate through each
> record in the index, will that be helpful.
>
> -siddhartha
>
>
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