[Bioperl-l] Fwd: [Bioperl-guts-l] Can BPLite parse HTML formatted BLAST output

[Jason Stajich]

forward to main bioperl list too so others can see

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> From: Jason Stajich <jason.stajich at duke.edu>
> Date: January 10, 2006 2:02:14 PM EST
> To: Richard Francis <richard.francis at cimr.cam.ac.uk>
> Cc: bioperl-guts-l at bioperl.org
> Subject: Re: [Bioperl-guts-l] Can BPLite parse HTML formatted BLAST  
> output
>
>
> http://bioperl.org/Core/Latest/faq.html#Q3.8
>
> But do not rely on this in the future to work always, NCBI has made  
> explicit they cannot promised to keep the HTML output that comes  
> from the website BLAST server parseable -- apparently according to  
> them, XML is the only blessed format which is guaranteed to always  
> be consistently parseable.
>
> -jason
> On Jan 10, 2006, at 1:21 PM, Richard Francis wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I currently use BPLite to parse my text based BLAST outputs.
>> I was wondering if BPLite or another BioPerl tool can parse an HTML
>> formatted BLAST output to pull out the same types of information.
>>
>> Kind regards and many thanks for any help in advance,
>>
>> Richard Francis
>>
>>
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> Jason Stajich
> Duke University
> http://www.duke.edu/~jes12
>
>

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Jason Stajich
Duke University
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