[Genome] blat quirk in -blast output mode

Derti, Adnan Adnan_Derti at hms.harvard.edu
Tue Apr 22 18:05:00 PDT 2008


Hi.

This is not exactly a serious problem, but in -blast output mode, blat (v. 34) reports matches on opposite strands as  "Minus / Plus", so that the coordinates of the query are descending and those of the subject are ascending. BLAST itself does the opposite (Plus / Minus).

In -blast8 mode, blat reports coordinates just as BLAST does in tabular format, with those of the query always in ascending order.

Thanks.

aDNAn




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