Zerg: a very fast BLAST parser library.
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
Paquola
Apuã C M
AC
Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Química, Universidade de São Paulo 05508-900, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. verjo@iq.usp.br
Machado
Abimael A
AA
Reis
Eduardo M
EM
Da Silva
Aline M
AM
Verjovski-Almeida
Sergio
S
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