Problem: formatting blast db with formatdb.exe
Situation:
1) downloaded and unzipped the Blast win32 executables into dir e:\blast
2) created ncbi.ini with contents
[NCBI]
Data=e:\blast\data
3) downloaded the ecoli.aa database from
ftp://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/db/ into dir e:\blast
4) ran formatdb as follows
>cd e:\blast
>formatdb -i ecoli.aa
5) formatdb.log has contents
========================[ Aug 10, 1998 1:16 AM
]========================
Version 2.0.5 [May-5-1998]
Started database file "ecoli.aa"
FATAL ERROR: [067:001] FindPath failed
FATAL ERROR: [067:000] Failure to read sequence. FastaToSeqEntry()
failed.
Formated 0 sequences
6) set env NCBI=e:\tmp\blast
I am assuming formatdb is unable to locate the db file "ecoli.aa". Any
clues as to what I'm doing incorrectly?
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