[BioPython] BLAST result persistence

[ISHIKAWA, Masahiro]

  Hi, all

I've just started to play with the BioPython package.
I'll parse and process the output of BLAST using
Bio.Blast module.

I'd like to preserve BLAST results for later use.
What should I do ?
Now I plan to serialize and store them to disks by using
cPickle, zlib, and shelve modules.
Rather, should I preserve them as a plain text file ?

I'll use a FASTA database and the same database will be
used as query as well.
Thus, BLAST will produce many records, one for each
query sequence.

Thanks in advance.