[Biopython] Original BLAST query

[Peter Cock]

Hi Trevor,

That is correct. All you can get is the aligned part of the sequence
in the BLAST XML file. The same applies to the other BLAST formats.

You will need to go back to the original FASTA query for the original
full query sequence.

Peter

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 4:00 PM, Trevor Bell <trevorgrahambell at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have run stand-alone BLAST of query sequences (Q1, Q2, Q3) against a set
> of reference sequences and written the results out in XML format, which I am
> then processing via BioPython. I am unable to find the original query
> sequences (Q1, Q2, Q3) in the XML file. Is this correct? When comparing each
> set of BLAST results, it would be useful to have access to the original
> query sequence, which was subjected to the BLAST, but this does not appear
> to be stored in the XML output.
>
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