On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 11:22 PM, Mike Dyall-Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > This should be easy (but not for me so far). I want to do local blast > searches, so I download the premade nr protein blast database from GenBank. > It is split into 10 .tar.gz files. > I've decompressed them all, and now I want to put all the file parts > together. Can I simply concatenate all similar files? (e.g. all 10 parts of > the .phd files). The Readme mentions use of an alias file, but I did not find > this at all clear. A set of step-by-step decompression and restoration > instructions would be useful. I could not find any. > Thanks for any assistance, Mike DS
Don't cat anything - just download all nr.*.tar.gz files, and decompress them. You'll have a load of files including a special alias file called nr.pal which is how BLAST knows how to deal with the combined 'nr' database. Peter ___________________________________________________________ The Galaxy User list should be used for the discussion of Galaxy analysis and other features on the public server at usegalaxy.org. Please keep all replies on the list by using "reply all" in your mail client. For discussion of local Galaxy instances and the Galaxy source code, please use the Galaxy Development list: http://lists.bx.psu.edu/listinfo/galaxy-dev To manage your subscriptions to this and other Galaxy lists, please use the interface at: http://lists.bx.psu.edu/ To search Galaxy mailing lists use the unified search at: http://galaxyproject.org/search/mailinglists/
