[Open-bio-l] [BioRuby] Interesting BLAST 2.2.25+ XML behaviour

[Peter Cock]

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