Zerg: a very fast BLAST parser library.

Paquola, Apuã C M; Machado, Abimael A; Reis, Eduardo M; Da Silva, Aline M; Verjovski-Almeida, Sergio · Bioinformatics · 2003

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Abstract

Zerg is a library of sub-routines that parses the output from all NCBI BLAST programs (Blastn, Blastp, Blastx, Tblastn and Tblastx) and returns the attributes of a BLAST report to the user. It is optimized for speed, being especially useful for large-scale genomic analysis. Benchmark tests show that Zerg is over two orders of magnitude faster than some widely used BLAST parsers. http://bioinfo.iq.usp.br/zerg

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