> On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 18:29, Jeremy Mann wrote: >> I am curious if any knows of any commercial or open source solution to >> breaking up the NCBI dbs into various sizes. Here, our present >> solution is > > You can use the "formatdb -v N" option to have the database > automatically divided into groups of N x 10**6 letters. I would > recommend this route for the database formatting side. Keep the > original db around for the other tools. Then how would you tell blastall which nodes have which *piece* of the database? -- Jeremy Mann jeremy@biochem.uthscsa.edu University of Texas Health Science Center Bioinformatics Core Facility http://www.bioinformatics.uthscsa.edu Phone: (210) 567-2672