Perl Script To Check Top Blast Hits

Question

[gui0me.nicolas]

I search for a perl script to check if the top BLAST hits to a query contained a full scientific binomial, i.e. for see if the next best hit has a complete scientific name with taxonomy, and to sorted it. Does anyone has already work with this kind of tool ? Thanks

Answer 1

[Biojl]

You could do it easily with biopython. http://biopython.org/DIST/docs/tutorial/Tutorial.html#htoc83

I don't know if anyone did it in perl...

Answer 2

[Janake]

I agree with Biojl and biopython is a good solution. But if you want a perl script, you can find a one in the following URL. I haven't used it, but this seems a good start.

http://www.oardc.ohio-state.edu/tomato/HCS806/blast_parsing_pl.txt