>From what I've determined, BLAST loads its databases into memory.
You could be running out of system memory, or the system could
be timing you out.
Try recompiling with a Large Memory Model and talk to your sys admin.
Pam
In article <8a5lp6$aj0$1 at niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk>,
gwilliam at hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Gary Williams) wrote:
> In article <200003070946.JAA00019 at tin.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk>,
> Gary Williams <gwilliam at hgmp.mrc.ac.uk> wrote:
> >
> >We are seeing increasing numbers of BLAST searches failing like this:
> >
> >---------------------------------------------------------------------
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> >Reference: Altschul, Stephen F., Thomas L. Madden, Alejandro A.
Schaffer,
> >Jinghui Zhang, Zheng Zhang, Webb Miller, and David J. Lipman (1997),
> >"Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: a new generation of protein database
search
> >programs", Nucleic Acids Res. 25:3389-3402.
> >
> >Query= Z92844, 151798 bases, CBD5EE91 checksum.
> > (151,798 letters)
> >
> >Database: new
> > 312,486 sequences; 300,934,448 total letters
> >
> >Searching.......................................
> >---------------------------------------------------------------------
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>> I forgot to mention that we are using the latest version (2.0.11)
>> Thanks to all those who suggested that I upgrade to this version :-)
>> Gary
>>
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