mpiBLAST is ready to run in BioBrew. 1)I had set up .ncbirc [NCBI] Data=/opt/BioBrew/NCBI/6.1.0/data [BLAST] BLASTDB=/tmp/blast 2) and mpiblast.conf /mnt/pvfs /tmp/blast /opt/BioBrew/NCBI/6.1.0/bin 3) edit my /etc/profile >export BLASTPATH=/opt/BioBrew/NCBI/6.1.0/bin >export MPIBLASTCONFIG=/home/build/mpiblast.conf >export MPIRUN=/opt/mpich-vmi-2.0-gcc/bin/mpirun 4) my $HOME/machines contains comp-pvfs-0-0 But this command gave me the mpirun helpfile $MPIRUN -np 2 -machinefile $HOME/machines $BLASTPATH/mpiblast config-file=$MPIBLASTCONFIG -p blastn -d ecoli.nt -i test.fas -o blast.txt and this command mpirun -np 2 -machinefile $HOME/machines $BLASTPATH/mpiblast config-file=$MPIBLASTCONFIG -p blastn -d ecoli.nt -i /tmp/blast/test.fas -o /tmp/blast/blast_results.txt gave me mv: cannot stat '/root/blast/ecoli.ntChNsWp': No such file or directory cp: cannot create regular file '/root/blast/ecoli.nt.00.nhr': Permission denied cp: cannot create regular file '/root/blast/ecoli.nt.00.nin': Permission denied cp: cannot create regular file '/root/blast/ecoli.nt.00.nsq': Permission denied cp: cannot create regular file '/root/blast/ecoli.nt.00.nnd': Permission denied cp: cannot create regular file '/root/blast/ecoli.nt.00.nni': Permission denied cp: cannot create regular file '/root/blast/ecoli.nt.00.nsd': Permission denied cp: cannot create regular file '/root/blast/ecoli.nt.00.nsi': Permission denied Error opening /root/blast/ecoli.ntChNsWp.nal Can anyone tell if it's my configuration or was it my command that's wrong? Thank you _________________________________________________________________ Get 10mb of inbox space with MSN Hotmail Extra Storage http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-sg