[Biopython] editing xml blast report

[Yvan]

On 10/11/10 13:45, Peter wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Yvan<yvan.strahm at uni.no>  wrote:
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I am wondering if it is possible with biopython to correctly edit a xml
>> blast report?
>>
>> Here my problem;
>> I need to filter/exclude some hits according to their length but the xml
>> consistency should be conserved.
> Biopython has a BLAST XML parser, but nothing to help you write
> out BLAST XML.
>
>> Should I parse with it with NCBIXML and recreate a xml file with hard
>> coded tags?
> That might be the best option.
>
>> I try to use the tabular output of blast+ and reformat it with
>> blast_formatter but with no success.
> I'm pretty sure the blast_formatter tools in BLAST+ will only convert
> from ASN.1 to other BLAST output formats. So that won't work,
> unless you can edit the ASN.1 file (but that would probably be
> harder than editing XML).
>
> Peter
Ok thanks for the answer.
Cheers,
yvan