Hi.

On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 14:02:56 +0100, Derek Gatherer wrote:

> Hi
> This is really a rather indirect question, since it concerns blastall 
> rather than Artemis, but I thought it might be possible that other Artemis 
> users might have had the same problem when setting up blastall to run from 
> the Artemis menu..... (OS is Tru64 5.1B running on an Alphastation 255).

> Blastall gives the following error.

> [blastall] WARNING:  [000.000]  Test1: Unable to open BLOSUM62
> [blastall] WARNING:  [000.000]  Test1: BlastScoreBlkMatFill returned
> non-zero status
> [blastall] WARNING:  [000.000]  Test1: SetUpBlastSearch failed.
> [blastall] WARNING:  [000.000]  Test2: Unable to open BLOSUM62
> [blastall] WARNING:  [000.000]  Test2: BlastScoreBlkMatFill returned
> non-zero status
> [blastall] WARNING:  [000.000]  Test2: SetUpBlastSearch failed.

> Blosum62 is in /blast/data and the .ncbirc file is set up to point 
> there.  The funny thing is that the error does not appear when blastall is 
> run as root, only when an ordinary user account is used to run it.  This 
> would seem to be a clear permissions problem, but all permissions in 
> blast/data intuitively would seem to be the correct thing.

Where is the .ncbirc file?  Does each user have a copy?


> # ls -l blast/data
> total 565
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     users       2122 Mar 11  1999 BLOSUM45
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     users       2122 Aug 25  1997 BLOSUM62
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     users       2124 Mar 11  1999 BLOSUM80
> Anybody seen anything similar?

We normally set the BLASTMAT environment variable to point to directory
that contains the BLOSUM files.  We set the BLASTMAT in the run_blastp
script so that it works for all users.

Kim.

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