[BioPython] Parsing NCBI_Standalone Blast according to release

[Aidan Budd]

Hi!

typical story, my biopython blast-parsing scripts worked beautifully, now
I'm running a different blast version and now they're broken (stuff about
lines not beginning with '     ' mutter mutter blast mutter mutter).

(I was using standalone
BLAST 2.2.2 [Dec-14-2001]
now I've got
BLASTP 2.2.2 [Jan-08-2002])

so, of course, something's changed in the blast output...

<sigh>



my question is...

does anyone know if there is a way of getting from biopython a blast
parser to go with a particular version of blast? e.g. I know I'm using
blast 2.2.2 Dec-14-2001 release, so I go and get appropriate biopython
blast modules?  Or is the best solution to go and get the blast version
that fits with the current biopython modules (if so, is there somewhere I
should look to find which blast the current biopython modules work with?)

any advice much appreciated!

thanks

aidan

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Aidan Budd
Gibson Team (v106)
Structural and Computational Biology Programme
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
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