On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Bossers, Alex <alex.boss...@wur.nl> wrote:
> Peter,
> We will definitely give them a try.

Great.

>
> I never understood why the tabular outputs did have an option to include
>  the defline/hit decryption.

That was a long standing gripe of mine too, fixed in BLAST+ 2.2.28 and
available in the BLAST+ wrappers on the main Tool Shed since Dec 2013,
http://toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/view/devteam/ncbi_blast_plus/ - see also:
http://blastedbio.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/blast-tabular-missing-descriptions.html

> Just for that we needed to use the cloggy XML output and parse that into
> a table again.

Yes, that was a pain. It was the main reason for writing this tool:
http://toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/view/peterjc/blastxml_to_top_descr

> Conserved header names are more useful to us than having column
> numbers. But either is fine with us.
> Alex

Yes, I'd also like the standard BLAST+ tabular output to include a #
(hash) commented header line listing the fields (tab separated). They
do something like this in the extremely verbose commend tabular
output, but that adds a lot of other largely redundant comment lines
as well :(

Regards,

Peter
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