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calculating the coverage percentage from blast8

Hi,

I used blat to find the similar transcripts between two transcriptomes. I outputted the result in blast8 tabular format which includes the following fields
Query_id,Subject_id,Percent_identity,alignment_length,mismatches,gap_openings,q._start,q_end,s_start,s_end,e-value,bit score

Based on these data how can calculate the query coverage percentage? Any guidance would be highly appreciated

coverage percentage blast8 output blat

You should add one more column, total length of the query sequence. Then calculate alignmentLength/total_query_seq_length.

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