[Bioperl-l] parsing blast reports

[Martin A. Hansen]

hi

using Bio::SearchIO to parse blastn reports, how does one find out if a hit is
on the leading or the complement strand?

and is it only I who have trouble with these sorts of simple questions? i tried
using Class::Inspector to view and test all the methods in
Bio::Search::Hit::GenericHit and Bio::Search::HSP::GenericHSP, but i see
nothing relating to strand ( "Plus / Plus" or "Plus / Minus" as seen in the
blast report).

it is rather diffecult, as a bioperl beginner, to pin down the function you need
in order to solve a fairly simple question. tracing the inherited objects from
the documentation in order to locate a specific functionality is awkward. and
tracing the functionality from the code alone is painful. so what does one do?

martin