[Biopython] [BioRuby] Interesting BLAST 2.2.25+ XML behaviour

Chris Fields cjfields at illinois.edu
Thu Aug 11 01:35:37 UTC 2011


On Aug 10, 2011, at 4:15 AM, Peter Cock wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Chris Fields <cjfields at illinois.edu> wrote:
>> I'm reviving this thread to see what the current status is (if anything has
>> changed).  The bioperl parser has the same problem; at the moment we're
>> bascially stuck until NCBI gives some indication as to whether this is a
>> bug or not.  Any word back from them yet?
>> 
>> (and agreed, it would be nice to have an external bug tracker from NCBI).
>> 
>> chris
> 
> Hi Chris,
> 
> My email to the NCBI on 17 May had a reply from Tao Tao (NCBI User
> services) saying it would be brought to their developers' attention.
> 
> For reference, the email subject line was:
> "Multiple iteration blocks per query in FASTA vs FASTA BLAST XML"
> 
> I have just emailed back to enquire if there is any news to report.
> 
> Peter

Wonder if it's worth a second prod from someone else.  Sometimes that gets their attention.

chris



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