[Bioperl-l] blast best hit

[Brian Osborne]

Boyang,

You can sort the hits, by any criterion you want:

my @hits = $result->hits;
@hits = sort { $a-> bits <=> $b->bits } @hits;

BIO

On Mar 31, 2011, at 8:28 AM, boyang zhe wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I just want to parse the blast results ,and get the best hit.
> 
> One way is to parse the results as usual, then get the first hit and exit
> the loop.
> 
> I checked the bioperl document, and find that there is a method
> best_hit_only in Bio::SearchIO::blast.pm.
> But it only return 1/0. So my question is how to use this method to get the
> best hit.
> 
> Thank you very much!
> 
> Boyang
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