Blast比对软件大概是是短序列局部比对软件中最常用的一个了，但是其参数众多，一些参数一直没好好仔细研究过，如下： #### 增加blast比对结果信息
blast的-outfmt参数，使blastp -help即可查看每个输出格式的信息，如下所示：
*** Formatting options
-outfmt <String>
alignment view options:
0 = Pairwise,
1 = Query-anchored showing identities,
2 = Query-anchored no identities,
3 = Flat query-anchored showing identities,
4 = Flat query-anchored no identities,
5 = BLAST XML,
6 = Tabular,
7 = Tabular with comment lines,
8 = Seqalign (Text ASN.1),
9 = Seqalign (Binary ASN.1),
10 = Comma-separated values,
11 = BLAST archive (ASN.1),
12 = Seqalign (JSON),
13 = Multiple-file BLAST JSON,
14 = Multiple-file BLAST XML2,
15 = Single-file BLAST JSON,
16 = Single-file BLAST XML2,
18 = Organism Report
Options 6, 7 and 10 can be additionally configured to produce
a custom format specified by space delimited format specifiers.
The supported format specifiers are:
qseqid means Query Seq-id
qgi means Query GI
qacc means Query accesion
qaccver means Query accesion.version
qlen means Query sequence length
sseqid means Subject Seq-id
sallseqid means All subject Seq-id(s), separated by a ';'
sgi means Subject GI
sallgi means All subject GIs
sacc means Subject accession
saccver means Subject accession.version
sallacc means All subject accessions
slen means Subject sequence length
qstart means Start of alignment in query
qend means End of alignment in query
sstart means Start of alignment in subject
send means End of alignment in subject
qseq means Aligned part of query sequence
sseq means Aligned part of subject sequence
evalue means Expect value
bitscore means Bit score
score means Raw score
length means Alignment length
pident means Percentage of identical matches
nident means Number of identical matches
mismatch means Number of mismatches
positive means Number of positive-scoring matches
gapopen means Number of gap openings
gaps means Total number of gaps
ppos means Percentage of positive-scoring matches
frames means Query and subject frames separated by a '/'
qframe means Query frame
sframe means Subject frame
btop means Blast traceback operations (BTOP)
staxid means Subject Taxonomy ID
ssciname means Subject Scientific Name
scomname means Subject Common Name
sblastname means Subject Blast Name
sskingdom means Subject Super Kingdom
staxids means unique Subject Taxonomy ID(s), separated by a ';'
(in numerical order)
sscinames means unique Subject Scientific Name(s), separated by a ';'
scomnames means unique Subject Common Name(s), separated by a ';'
sblastnames means unique Subject Blast Name(s), separated by a ';'
(in alphabetical order)
sskingdoms means unique Subject Super Kingdom(s), separated by a ';'
(in alphabetical order)
stitle means Subject Title
salltitles means All Subject Title(s), separated by a '<>'
sstrand means Subject Strand
qcovs means Query Coverage Per Subject
qcovhsp means Query Coverage Per HSP
qcovus means Query Coverage Per Unique Subject (blastn only)其实我们一般常用的就是-outfmt 5或者-outfmt 6，前者输出XML格式，后者输出TAB分割格式；前者在早期一篇博文Blast+ xml格式解读中提起过（信息比较全，用处也相对比较广），而后者则是平时最为常用的格式（也是一些软件喜欢调用的格式）
TAB格式每列信息如下（可以对照上面的说明理解一下）：
qseqid sseqid pident length mismatch gapopen qstart qend sstart send evalue bitscore但我们有时想要的并不止上述12列信息，比如我还想知道比对结果的覆盖度信息（qcovs：Query Coverage Per Subject）
其实只要在blast比对命令中先事先加上需要增加的列ID即可，如在outfmt 6基础上加上覆盖度信息：
-outfmt "6 qseqid sseqid pident length mismatch gapopen qstart qend sstart send evalue bitscore qcovs"注：需要几列就一直往上加即可，空格分割
分割NR子库
之前分割NR子库选用的是早期一篇博文创建NR子库以及从NR库提取特定物种分类的序列
但是现在NCBI出了blast-2.8版本，其可支持用NCBI自带代码分割的NR子库的索引作为比对的库，使用比较方便
- Support for a new version of the BLAST database that allows you to limit search by taxonomy as well some other improvements.
当然如果用这个版本的话，NR库也要重新下载了ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/db/v5/
使用方式也比较简单（至少比之前的方法方便了），如果只想比对单一物种（如人:9606的话），命令如下：
blastp –db nr –query query.fasta –taxids 9606 –outfmt 6 –out blast.outfm6如果想比对NR子库哺乳动物的话，需要先建个哺乳动物子库索引
get_species_taxids.sh -t 40674 > 40674.txids然后再将序列比对至NR哺乳动物子库
blastp –db nr –query query.fasta –taxidlist 40674.txids –outfmt 6 –out blast.outfm6具体说明可看：https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/db/v5/blastdbv5.pdf
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