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Book:   BLAST
Subject:   blast2table example error
Date:   2008-01-25 09:45:47
From:   haiyan
Rating:  StarStarStarStarStar

This book's content is excellent and useful for biologist and computer guys who focus on sequences analysis. But there are some errors in the book, such as picture 3-5 in Charpter3. I also find a small bug in the example code of script "blast2table.pl". In the line 33, the q_align should assign to null value (q_align => ""),but the example code is a_align=>0 and perl treat "0" as a character
. So if you blast a 25bp oligo you will get an alignment length 26 wrongly. The code about q_align display in the Appednix E part is right.

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