NCBI working on SAM output from BLAST+ →
A new post on Peter Cock's excellent Blasted Bioinformatics!? blog points to a surprising new feature in the recently released version 2.2.31 of NCBI BLAST+:
The command line help in BLAST+ 2.2.31 only describes output formats 0 to 14. I discovered by accident that [-outfmt option] 15 offers SAM format output