[EMBOSS] Antwort: dbifasta and ncbi formats

David.Bauer at Schering.DE David.Bauer at Schering.DE
Mon Oct 24 07:00:36 UTC 2005



The new indexing programs dbx... don't have the old file size limit of 2
Gb.
So dbiblast has this limit and in addition it supports only the old blast
index format.
There is no documentation about the new blast index format from ncbi,
therefore
this format is not supported by emboss.
The old blast indices can't be created by the latest formatdb versions so
I think this is the reason, why Alan did
not write a new dbxblast.

Cheers,
David.
Allen Smith <easmith at beatrice.rutgers.edu> schrieb am 24/10/2005 08:47:55:

> Would using dbiblast be an alternative? What are its capacity limits? I
had
> to use dbxfasta, not dbifasta on the nr database due to size - would the
> same be true for dbiblast (and there isn't a dbxblast, I see...)?
>
>    Thanks,
>
>    -Allen
>
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