I've just started using Biopython, and I am trying to perform remote BLAST operations using the qblast() function. Everything seems to be working properly, but I am not being able to retrieve an essential output result. When performing the BLAST from the NCBI webpage, I can see the "Features" field for each genome hit, that indicates the gene, for a given hit genome, assigned to the query nucleotide sequence. However, when parsing the output XML file from qblast(), I see no field that corresponds to this. I have exported the XML file directly from a BLAST output, and it is missing there as well, which indicates that this might be the default behaviour of the NCBI BLAST.
Is it possible that such a crucial piece of information is missing entirely from this output file? Is there an alternative way to access this information, or can I only access it by parsing the output file in text form?
Could you add an explicit example (eg a query sequence / GI number, and the feature output your are looking for)?