Blast Tabular to XML

Question

[moranr]

Hi,

I have a rather large Blast completed, with the results in tabular text format. I need to generate the results in xml format to use with software. I know I can specify this in the blasting options, but to redo the blast is a lot of computation power that I wish not to 'waste' if possible.

Thanks

Answer 1

[michael.ante]

Try this one:A: Convert Blast Output Into Blast-Xml

[5heikki]

Generating authentic blast xml output from tabular output is impossible because some of the information, like e.g. the actual alignments, is not present in the latter.

[moranr]

This comment is the correct answer to my question. Thanks.