dear biojava associates, iam very new to biojava i need to know is there any class or interface which can read content(line by line or charecter by charecter) of flat file/text file(blast output) and allow me to manipulate programmatically i apologize if it is too much basic question for u thanks for u r earlier attention warm regards Subba Raju, iL@bs, Hyderabad-500037. India