Additional file 3 of Phylotranscriptomics points to multiple independent origins of multicellularity and cellular differentiation in the volvocine algae

Additional file 3. Python script. Python script that was used to mine individual de novo transcriptomes for single-copy genes located through local BLAST databases. This script reads BLAST input files in XML format and extracts and translates a scaffold in all six reading frames based on the scaffold ID of the first BLAST hit. Once the scaffold is translated in all six reading frames, the ‘hit sequence’ is located and written to a file with the ‘query sequence’ in FASTA format.