[Bioperl-l] recovering blast query_name

[Lewis Lukens]

Hello,

Sorry for a basic question... I have been trying to use the 
Bio::Tools:Run:RemoteBlast module to blast a single file with many 
fasta formated sequences against ncbi nt and parse the blast reports. 
Almost everything is working well.  I get all the hit and hsp 
features for all the hits.  I can recover the query sequence, but I 
can't seem to recover the query sequence names.  How does one do this?

I used almost the exact code as in the Remoteblast Synopsis
http://doc.bioperl.org/releases/bioperl-1.0.2/Bio/Tools/Run/RemoteBlast.html

in this code, this expression works:
print "db is ", $result->database_name(), "\n";

but, these expressions return empty fields:
     my $name = $result->query_name();
     my $desc = $result->query_description();
     my $acc= $result->query_accession();

I have been using SearchIO to parse blast output files and never had 
this problem before.  Any ideas?

Thanks much,
Lewis
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Lewis Lukens
Assistant Professor
Department of Plant Agriculture
Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario. N1G 2W1

Tel: (519) 824- 4120 ext 2304