[Biodevelopers] XML schema/API for BLAST?

[Mitchell Skinner]

Hello,

NCBI has an XML DTD for its blast output at
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/documents/NCBI_BlastOutput.dtd

The BLAST XML readme at
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/documents/README.blxml
may also be useful.  It contains more description of the blast xml
output.

If you're asking whether there is an xml-rpc or SOAP interface to the
blast web service, then I'm not aware of any.  If you're wanting to
script blast runs, though, then running locally may be easier in any
case.

HTH,
Mitch

On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 10:58, Fangxia Li wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> Anyone knows if BLAST support XML API and where I can
> find the XML schema for BLAST search. Anyone got some
> sample codes (including search input and output in XML
> format)
> 
> Regards,
> Scott
> 
> Bioinformatics Developer
> Thomas Jefferson University
> Philadelphia, PA 19107 
> 
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