NCBI/GenBank BLAST Output XML Parser Tool

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I'd like to think my open letter blog post helped motivate them to add this

It wasn't clear from your post announcing your script that it pre-dated BLAST 2.2.28+ being released.

I was floored when I called them up and asked them why one couldn't extract that information with 2.2.26 - they said "why would anyone want to do that?" - so we wrote the script - anyway, thanks for pointing out that 2.2.28 does this (I hadn't checked).

[maubp]

I'd like to think my open letter blog post helped motivate them to add this

It wasn't clear from your post announcing your script that it pre-dated BLAST 2.2.28+ being released.

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This seems like a lot of unnecssary work now that BLAST itself offers descriptions in the tabular output,
http://blastedbio.blogspot.co.uk/201...criptions.html

2.2.26 (2.2.27) didn't have this feature, and when I talked to NCBI they stated "no plans to include" - we wrote the script well over a year ago. I'm glad they did it.

[maubp]

This seems like a lot of unnecssary work now that BLAST itself offers descriptions in the tabular output,

http://blastedbio.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/blast-tabular-missing-descriptions.html

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see Blast 2.2.28