Online Tools To "Prettify" Blast Output

Question

[Ian]

Can anyone suggest an online tool, for a non-bioinformatician (not for me you understand, oh no not me), that will make BLAST output "pretty", i.e. add shading to make mismatches and so on more obvious?

Many thanks!

[Neilfws]

Do them a favour: write some code to demonstrate that parsing is more informative than "prettification" and visual inspection :)

Answer 1

[SES]

BlastViewer allows you to graphically explore BLAST results. There are also various methods for generating HTML pages, like the ones that Pierre mentioned.

Answer 2

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

No really online/dynamic.

If the result is saved as XML, you just could add a xml-stylesheet directive at the top of the XML file

[?]?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="blast2something.xsl"?[?]

and it will be transformed to whatever-you-want when the file we be opened in a web browser. (see http://lekkimworld.com/2006/06/03/apply_xslt_style_sheet_to_an_xml_document_for_browser_friendly_display.html )

Examples:

• blast2xhtml: http://plindenbaum.blogspot.com/2011/03/blast-stylesheet-xml-to-html.html
• blast2blast: Blast Stylesheet