[R] BLAST output parsing

[Tom Blackwell]

Matt  -

Yes, you would be seriously re-inventing the wheel.
A standard tool is the  bioperl SearchIO  package.
This is described at

www.bioperl.org > Docs > SearchIO HOWTO:

The html version of that link evaluates to:

http://bioperl.org/HOWTOs/html/SearchIO.html

-  best  -  tom blackwell  -  u michigan medical school  -  ann arbor  -

On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Matthew Oliver wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I have use the BLAST program provided by NCBI to compare large databases and have
> generated a lot of output in one long text file. I was looking for a way to parse
> out the results in a nice way so that it could be easily visualized. I was thinking
> of trying to write something in R, but I wanted to check in with the help group to
> make sure I am not re-inventing the wheel. Any help would be great!
>
> Matt Oliver
>
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