[Biopython] Legacy blastn XML outfile parsing is slow. What XML parser is actually used?
Michiel de Hoon
mjldehoon at yahoo.com
Fri Sep 14 00:37:08 UTC 2012
--- On Thu, 9/13/12, Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs at fold.natur.cuni.cz> wrote:
> P.S.: And yes, I would love to parse blastn plaintext output
> or some other more compact one, the XML is really an overkill.
What exactly is the advantage of plain text parsing compared to XML? File size?
Best,
-Michiel.
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