DbWatcher errors ?

[Harry]

In article <38C82186.5C008636 at arl.arizona.edu_no_spam>, Nirav Merchant
<nirav at arl.arizona.edu_no_spam> wrote:

> Greetings,
>  Lately the dbwatcher program
> [http://www-igbmc.u-strasbg.fr/BioInfo/LocalDoc/DBWatcher/] has been
> complaining about blast2 services at NCBI.

NCBI discontinued old BLAST services (v1.4) 1 March 2000...

   <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST/blast_whatsnew.html>

I believe dbwatcher uses blastcl2 libraries from the NCBI toolkit which
are no longer supported in this change. The authors seem to be somewhat
aware of this limitation:

<http://www-igbmc.u-strasbg.fr/BioInfo/LocalDoc/DBWatcher/Manager/requirements.html>
(where it says _Important Notice_)

-Harry

-- 
Harry <h3 at ucla.edu>