On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Jim Johnson <johns198@umn.edu> wrote:
Peter,
It's good news that the description field is available in tabular format. That has been the primary reason for using the xml format.
Yes.
The tabular format allows use of the task parallel feature.
We already support parallel sub-tasks with BLAST XML merge support - but yes this is simpler with tabular output.
I think you have good default options for output format.
Great. I'll probably merge the c25 branch and push that to the Test Tool Shed next week (adding the descriptions as a new 25th column to the default extended tabular output).
But, I would think we should offer the option to get all available result information. The multi-select checkboxes could serve that purpose.
OK, so adding a pick-you-own columns tabular output would be useful :)
Is NCBI good about maintaining the column position of their tabular over successive versions?
When picking the columns, the order is the order given at the command line itself - i.e. we would control that in the wrapper explicitly. Regards, Peter