---
name: "bp_search2tribe"
section: "1p"
platform: "linux"
package: "bioperl"
version: "1.7.8-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/bp_search2tribe"
---

# bp\_search2tribe(1p)

Turn SearchIO parseable reports(s) into TRIBE matrix

## NAME

bp\_search2tribe - Turn SearchIO parseable reports(s) into TRIBE matrix

## SYNOPSIS

Usage:\
   bp\_search2tribe \[-o outputfile\] \[-f reportformat\] \[-w/--weight\] file1 file2 ..

## DESCRIPTION

This script is probably too slow for most people's uses.  It is better to use something like scripts/searchio/fastam9\_to\_table, -m 9 output from BLAST, or the blast2table from the BLAST O'Reilly book to get a tabular output from these programs and then feed the table into MCL with the mcxdeblast script and the --m9 option.

This script will turn a protein Search report (BLASTP, FASTP, SSEARCH) into a Markov Matrix for TribeMCL clustering.

The options are:

```
   -o filename          - the output filename [default STDOUT]
   -f format            - search result format (blast, fasta)
                          (ssearch is fasta format). default is blast.
   -w or --weight VALUE - Change the default weight for E(0.0) hits
                          to VALUE (default=200 (i.e. 1e-200) )
   -h                   - this help menu
```

Additionally specify the filenames you want to process on the command-line.  If no files are specified then STDIN input is assumed. You specify this by doing: bp\_search2tribe \< file1 file2 file3

## AUTHOR

Jason Stajich, jason-at-bioperl-dot-org