There have been a number of requests to the list (and directly to me) for increased functionality for the BLAST parsers (eg capturing more of the information in the report). Originally the design was lightweight and captured what most people wanted but as always there are always people who think different (as Steve Jobs might say) and want different things.
The best way for the BLAST parsers to improve is for people to contribute code. There are lots of work arounds that people have made to improve the parsers that have not found there way into biojava. Ideally I'm hoping someone will volunteer to take a look at this and coordinate the effort. The ideal person should be a reasonable Java programmer with a good feel for how the BLAST part of the API works. They would also be someone who uses it a lot and is therefore motivated to improve it. The BLAST API is probably the most used part of biojava so instant fame and adulation await the generous volunteer : ) I know your out there somewhere... - Mark Mark Schreiber Principal Scientist (Bioinformatics) Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases (NITD) 10 Biopolis Road #05-01 Chromos Singapore 138670 www.nitd.novartis.com phone +65 6722 2973 fax +65 6722 2910 _______________________________________________ Biojava-l mailing list - Biojava-l@biojava.org http://biojava.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l
