Hi,
I am trying to use -l option to restrict the blast search to a list of GI's. For doing this I downloaded the swissprot database (FASTA file) from the BLAST FTP site and ran formatdb on it with -p T -o T options. Then I took the sequence mentioned below and did a blastall -p blastp without the -l option. This gave me a result file with a number of hits. From these hits I picked one and went back to the FASTA file and retrived the GI corresponding to it. Then I wrote this GI in a .gi file and again ran blastall with -l option. Now it should only restrict the search to this particular GI but instead I get the following error:
[blastall] ERROR: gi|2507261|sp|P00496|PUR1_ECOLI: Unable to open file seqlist2.gi
[blastall] WARNING: gi|2507261|sp|P00496|PUR1_ECOLI: Intersection of gilist and BLAST database ID's empty
Where seqlist2.gi contains the GI 84029594.
FASTA query was :
>gi|2507261|sp|P00496|PUR1_ECOLI Amidophosphoribosyltransferase (Glutamine phosphoribosylpyrophosphate amidotransferase) (ATASE) (GPATASE)
MCGIVGIAGVMPVNQSIYDALTVLQHRGQDAAGIITIDANNCFRLRKANGLVSDVFEARHMQRLQGNMGI
GHVRYPTAGSSSASEAQPFYVNSPYGITLAHNGNLTNAHELRKKLFEEKRRHINTTSDSEILLNIFASEL
DNFRHYPLEADNIFAAIAATNRLIRGAYACVAMIIGHGMVAFRDPNGIRPLVLGKRDIDENRTEYMVASE
SVALDTLGFDFLRDVAPGEAIYITEEGQLFTRQCADNPVSNPCLFEYVYFARPDSFIDKISVYSARVNMG
TKLGEKIAREWEDLDIDVVIPIPETSCDIALEIARILGKPYRQGFVKNRYVGRTFIMPGQQLRRKSVRRK
LNANRAEFRDKNVLLVDDSIVRGTTSEQIIEMAREAGAKKVYLASAAPEIRFPNVYGIDMPSATELIAHG
REVDEIRQIIGADGLIFQDLNDLIDAVRAENPDIQQFECSVFNGVYVTKDVDQGYLDFLDTLRNDDAKAV
QRQNEVENLEMHNEG
I could not comprehend the reason for this behaviour here and any help would be appreciated.
Thankx
Regards,
Parit Bansal
