Rimantas.Plaipa at gf.vu.lt (Rimas) writes:
> MarkMcClain wrote:
> >
> > I am interested in performing multiple FASTA searches on a local machine
> > (Mac or PC, possibly Linux) using a local database. When I submit a file
> > containing multiple sequences in FASTA format, (">string", sequence,
> > ">string2", sequence2...), the program does not recognize the beginning of a
> > new sequence and simply concatenates the two sequences to perform the
> > search. When I use the same file as input into BLAST, each sequence is
> > recognized as I intended.
> >
>> I have done this many times and it works. There may be problems if
> you're using foreign format files. For example, Unix text format
> libraries (with LF as line end char) doesn't work on PC.
> Maybe you are using Mac format file on PC or vice versa ?
If you can search with FASTA with multiple fasta query sequences, you are not
using the standard FASTA package on a Mac or PC. None of the programs that
I distribute on those platforms work for multiple queries.
Under unix, you can search with several queries in a file using the
MPI or PVM parallel versions. Unfortunately, the unix versions of the
standard fasta programs do not work with multiple queries.
Bill Pearson
