DBIBLAST error when creating blast database

[Peter Rice]

Marcus Claesson wrote:
> Tried it, but it will still not fully work.
> Looks like this now:

> Warning: Duplicate ID skipped: '0?0???7(AE000312)' All hits will point to
> first ID found
> ..
> and so on...
> 
> Am I almost there?

Yes - almost !!!

The latest formatdb from NCBI creates "version 4" blast index files. NCBI 
have not provided any documentation on this format, so it is not supported 
by EMBOSS. To produce the 'old' (non-ASN.1) index files, use:

formatdb -A F

That should fix it.

Peter

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