[BioRuby] Parsing large Blast xml files - a new bioruby plugin

[Rob Syme]

I think that the list at
http://bioruby.open-bio.org/wiki/BioRuby_Plugins is pretty
comprehensive, my mistake was simply not looking.
-r


On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Philipp Comans
<philipp.comans at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I had a similar problem recently. I needed an efficient parser for Blast XML results and I discovered that the default parser in BioRuby was not suitable. So I wrote my own using Nokogiri.
> In my opinion it is way too hard at the moment to discover BioPlugins. When people use the default XML or GFF parser that comes with BioRUby, they do not expect that there is another, more efficient version. There should be a section on the front page or even in the corresponding parts of the API documentation that makes people aware of the existence of these efficient parsers.
>
> BTW thank you all for BioRuby, I used in a project recently and it made my life tremendously easier.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Philipp
>