[Bioperl-l] A question about iBio::Index: and its correct use

[Florent Angly]

Hans-Rudolf was talking about a way to retrieve sequences from a BLAST 
database. If you use BLAST locally, then your database is local too.
More info here: 
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/staff/tao/URLAPI/formatdb_fastacmd.html
Florent


jluis.lavin at unavarra.es wrote:
> Thanks a lot for your help Hans,
> It's a little bit to hard to understand and turn into script this awesome
> information you've just given me...I hope I can use it in a near future
> anyway ;)
> The issue here is that the sequences I,m indexing are not generated by the
> NCBI nor stored there...although I belive you´re just refering to the tool
> itself and not to a retrieval from the NCBI.
>
> Thanks again you´re all great giving advice to newbies like me ;)
>
> Best wishes to you all
>
>
> El Jue, 5 de Noviembre de 2009, 17:02, Hotz, Hans-Rudolf escribió:
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>> Jluis
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>>> -Then I´ll beg you to take a look at my scripts, because I don´t seem to
>>> catch the bug...
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>> you haven't attached/included any scripts, have you?
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>> Anyway, have you considered using BLAST indices (created with the
>> additional
>> flag "-o") together with the tool 'fastacmd' (which also included in the
>> NCBI blast binaries) as a simple (and very fast) alternative for fetching
>> sequences.
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>> Regards, Hans
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