DBIBLAST error when creating blast database

[Peter Rice]

Marcus Claesson wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> When I try to create a blast database for use within emboss (I have
> EMBOSS-2.5.1), it won't work. I created the ecoli.aa db using 'formatdb'. 
> This is what I'm doing:
> 
> Wildcard database filename [ecoli.aa]:
> 
>    EMBOSS An error in dbiblast.c at line 351:
> No files selected
> ........................
> 
> Could anyone help me with this?

Your wildcard filename fails to find any files.

If you still had the ecoli.aa fasta file (the one formatdb was used on) 
this would work - the wildcard filename check finds that file and then 
tries the formatdb index extensions.

You should specify ecoli.aa.* (in quotes if on the command line because of 
the '*')

Hope this helps

Peter

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