[Biococoa-dev] Reading blast formatted files

[Koen van der Drift]

On Aug 11, 2006, at 6:26 AM, Davide Cittaro wrote:

> They are in binary format and indexed, I assume they are some kind  
> of dictionary dumps, so that you can retrieve sequences with an  
> accession number. I haven't checked NCBI docs and sources, yet :-(

It would be great if we could add that to BioCocoa. Could you look  
into the binary format, and how to convert that to readable text files?

cheers,

- Koen.