BlastStat

3) The messy BLAST output is then parsed and analyzed by a program called BlastStat.pl. This program gives some statistics on what these strange sequences aligned to. It isolates sequences that aligned to things that are not Drosophila or human and puts the output into a file ending in .stat. These strange sequences are placed into another file ending in .weird that is further analyzed. The .weird file actually was made manually by eliminating all of the useful statistics at the top of the .stat files.