CountBlastHits

This repository contains the python script count_blast_hits.py to calculate presence/absence of gene/protein hits based in a blast output tabular file.

Python packages

Install the following python packages: argparse, os, sys

Running the script for the first time

For help: python count_blast_hits.py -h

With arguments: python count_blast_hits.py --seq-hits seq_hits.txt --file-suffix '_blasted.txt'

Usage

The output of this script was used with Evolview to produce a sequence similarity profile.

Citation

Ramos-Silva P, Wall-Palmer D, Marlétaz F, Marin F, Peijnenburg KTCA. Evolution and biomineralization of pteropod shells. J Struct Biol 2021; 213: 107779.