Hi, There's a command line argument for formatdb that forces a name of your choice onto the blast database files. I have found that this avoids the (null).nal and (null).pal problem. -n Base name for BLAST files [String] Optional David On Monday 19 July 2004 10:15 pm, Joe Landman wrote: > kenix y wrote: > > Hi, > > > > For some reason unknown to me, mpiformatdb always gives me (null).nal > > instead of ecoli.nt.nal. > > After making some changes to the DBLIST line, I got this output with > > no error message. > > Does this means my mpiblast is finally working? > > No. This means that you are running into some bugs. Last I remember, > the (null).nal problem has to do with a version problem. > > > Did you compile mpiBLAST yourself? > > > Thank you. > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Get 10mb of inbox space with MSN Hotmail Extra Storage > > http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-sg