How to obtain gene ids from an .xml file

[Hel]

Hi all,

I have an .xml file from a blast search and I would like to extract the gene identifiers. Is it possible?

Thanks in advance,

[GenoMax]

If this is a standard XML file from NCBI blast then this should work.

$ grep "Hit_accession" your_file.xml | sed 's/<Hit_accession>//' | sed 's/<\/Hit_accession>//'

If you need the gi numbers then replace "Hit_accession" with "Hit_id".

[Hel]

It works perfectly! Thank you very much GenoMax!