On 26 Sep 2005, at 10:22 am, david coornaert wrote: > What are you using to merge the outputs ? (and to manage the stats...) > Hey, I'm just the sysadmin. :-) I think the output is merged usually by perl code, using the BioPerl BLAST parsers. Stats can be dealt with, I understand, in BLAST itself; there's a parameter to tell it actually how large the total database is, not just the segment it's currently running against. There are people on this list far better qualified than I to give you the details... Tim -- Dr Tim Cutts Informatics Systems Group, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute GPG: 1024D/E3134233 FE3D 6C73 BBD6 726A A3F5 860B 3CDD 3F56 E313 4233