On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 11:02, Osborne, John wrote: > 1)Rename (null).pal to nr.pal > 2)Replace all (null)'s in nr.pal with nr > 3)Add the substitution matrixes directly to my home directory, > mpiblast can not seem to find my data directory despite it being > specified in the .ncbirc file. Maybe I have to add this to mpi.conf? > If it wasn't for the debug option I don't think I would have ever found > this, wise of the authors to include that one in there. Note: For some reason, I seem to remember needing to put a "Data=/path/to/scoring/matrices" as the third line in mpiblast.conf. I make sure this is a shared path. > I think I can probably solve 3 and 4 with some more time, but I have > spent more than a few hours on getting this thing to work already. I'm > still not sure where the original mpiformatdb null problem arose. What was your original mpiformatdb line? -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Scalable Informatics LLC, email: landman@scalableinformatics.com web : http://scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 612 4615