If you want to do interactive queries, you can use gfClient. But then you'll need to install a gfServer instance. That will read the file into memory creating a db index.
There is no way to "save off a db index", but using the compressed .2bit format helps both gfServer and standalone blat load up faster. -Galt On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, Walburger, David K. wrote: > All, > > I am a new BLAT user. I would like to use the command line version but > interactively access a database index without needed to setup an index > server. Can BLAT create and save off a db index to disk and then simply > read the file into memory as needed without having to recalculate it? > I've searched the archives but haven't been able to find a similar post. > > Thank you, > > Dave > _______________________________________________ > Genome maillist - [email protected] > http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome > _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
