[BiO BB] megablast and blastp index errors

[Joe Landman]

Hi David

DGW wrote:
> Hi Rich,
> I'm not totally sure about this, but you might need to pass the option
> -o T to formatdb. See if the following works:
> 
> formatdb -i -o T astral100

Yes.  Without it, it seems to forget to write some files.

Joe

> 
> without the -o option the program fastacmd won't work (as far as I
> remember). Perhaps the same is true for megablast...
> 
> Cheers
> David
> 
> rich wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I created a blastable db with formatdb (2.2.10):
>>
>> formatdb -i astral100
>>
>> I can run blastall -p blastp and it works fine
>> but when I run megablast I get
>>
>> [megablast] WARNING: Could not find index files for database astral100
>>
>> Any ideas?
>> Thanks
>> Rich
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