FW: [Bioperl-l] Fwd: [Biojava-l] new NCBI blast outputs XML

Jeffrey Chang jchang@SMI.Stanford.EDU
Fri, 11 Aug 2000 16:56:14 -0700 (PDT)


Hi Sergie,

I'm really excited to have XML output for Blast.  It should make things a
lot easier to parse!

From your blstxml.dtd,

<!-- 
 Karlin-Altschul parameter H
 -->
<!ELEMENT Statistics_enthropy ( %REAL; )>

Should this be Statistics_entropy?

Jeff




On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Sergei Shavirin wrote:

> 
> Andrew,
> 
> Here are ASN.1 and DTD specs and example of simple XML output.
> Please let me know if you need more information.
> 
> Sergei 
> 
> >From: Andrew Dalke [mailto:dalke@acm.org]
> >Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 3:57 PM
> >To: bioperl-l@bioperl.org
> >Cc: Geer, Lewis (NLM)
> >Subject: Re: [Bioperl-l] Fwd: [Biojava-l] new NCBI blast outputs XML
> >
> >
> >Lewis Geer said:
> >>The standalone blast server (available on the our ftp site) now has XML
> >>output, thanks to Sergei Shavirin.  He said he'll try to add it to blastall
> >>before he leaves for vacation today.  Eventually, XML should be available
> >>from our public BLAST web pages, too.
> >
> >Any chance an example output file can be put somewhere?  I would like to
> >see what it looks like.  I'm working on a parser project for biopython
> >and want to make sure I'm using consistent names for the same data items.
> >
> >                    Andrew
> >                    dalke@acm.org
> >
> >
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