title: Zerg: a very fast BLAST parser library.
abstract: CONCLUSIONS
  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.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  http://bioinfo.iq.usp.br/zerg
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Química, Universidade de São Paulo 05508-900, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. verjo@iq.usp.br
authors.forename: Apuã C M
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Paquola
authors.forename: Abimael A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Machado
authors.forename: Eduardo M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Reis
authors.forename: Aline M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Da Silva
authors.forename: Sergio
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Verjovski-Almeida
mesh_terms: D003628:Database Management Systems; D030561:Databases, Nucleic Acid; D009317:National Library of Medicine (U.S.); D016415:Sequence Alignment / Q000379:methods*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000379:methods; D012984:Software; D014481:United States; D014584:User-Computer Interface