[EMBOSS] can't access databases indexed by dbifasta

[Peter Rice]

Marcus Claesson wrote:

> But I continue struggling with upcoming problems and you must be tired
> of me asking questions all the time... (It's either me or the emboss man
> pages that are bad, probably a mix ;))
> 
> Anyway, when I want to create a second database ecoli_aa, dbifasta seems
> to overwrite the old indexfiles.

The index files always have the same name.

But you can put the index files in a new directory with the 
-indexdirectory option of dbifasta

The index directory goes into your database definition as

indexdirectory: "/full/path/toindex/files/"

Hope this helps

Peter Rice