Problem resolved. Thanks to Scott McGinnis at NLM for pointing out that
I forgot to locate the ncbi.ini config file in a system directory
(dah!). Thanks Scott.
W
Wayne Parrott wrote:
>> 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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