dbiblast problem

Martin Sarachu mad at biol.unlp.edu.ar
Fri Jun 7 11:42:08 UTC 2002


Hi,

anyone found a solution for the dbiblast problem?

I'm trying to index the formatdb'ed humrep.fas (nuc) FASTA database

> % dbiblast 
> Index a BLAST database
> Database name: humrep.fsa
> Database directory [.]: 
> Wildcard database filename [humrep.fsa]: humrep.fsa.*
> Release number [0.0]: 
> Index date [00/00/00]: 
>          N : nucleic
>          P : protein
>          ? : unknown
> Sequence type [unknown]: N
>          1 : wublast and setdb/pressdb
>          2 : formatdb
>          0 : unknown
> Blast index version [unknown]: 2
> 
>    EMBOSS An error in dbiblast.c at line 640:
>  cannot open ./humrep.fsa.nhr table file ./humrep.fsa.nhr.nin


I also get a similar error when trying with nr (prot) database

> $ dbiblast 
> Index a BLAST database
> Database name: nr 
> Database directory [.]:  
> Wildcard database filename [nr]: nr.*
> Release number [0.0]: 
> Index date [00/00/00]: 
>          N : nucleic
>          P : protein
>          ? : unknown
> Sequence type [unknown]: P
>          1 : wublast and setdb/pressdb
>          2 : formatdb
>          0 : unknown
> Blast index version [unknown]: 2
> 
>    EMBOSS An error in dbiblast.c at line 640:
>  cannot open ./nr.phr table file ./nr.phr.pin


martin

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