Retriving sequences from large local databases

[Malay]

Kevin Karplus wrote:
> In article <491dde49.0503080219.17666dac at posting.google.com>, Rolf wrote:
> 
>>I am running local blast on different databases. This works perfectly.
>>The problem comes when I want to retrieve sequences from the large
>>(and practically not possible to open) databases.
>>Can this be done through the BioEdit program?
>>Other programs?
> 
> 
> If you are using NCBI blast, then the "fastacmd" program from NCBI can
> retrieve your hits for you.  
> 
> fastacmd -d nr -i idfile > foo.fa
> 
> To get the ids, you might want to use the "-m 9" format for the output
> of the blast query and -I T to turn on the full names. With this
> format, you still have to extract the ids, but it is a simpler script
> than with the usual nearly unparseable blast output.
> 
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Actually any string can be used to get the sequence for the BLAST 
database, so long the string is present in the original FASTA file used 
to create the BLAST database using formatdb.

fastacmd -d "database" -s "string"

-Malay