On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.c...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm wondering if the following task can be done in Galaxy with the
> standard tools. The specific example is selecting the top (e.g. 3)
> match sequences for each blast query, but I see this problem as much
> more general than a  "Select top BLAST hits" tool.
>
> ...
>
> Does this make sense? Does it seem like a useful tool to write if
> there isn't anything like this already present? Or might it be simpler
> to just write a "Select top BLAST hits" tool?

While I still think the above task could be useful in general, I am
now considering a general "BLAST filter" tool to offer this and some
other commonly used filters like a minimum coverage threshold
(which is possible with a filter on the extended tabular output, but
not trivial).

Peter

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