[galaxy-user] Galaxy error: can't fine fasta file

2012-09-17 Thread Kenneth R. Auerbach
Hello, I'm new to Galaxy. When I read in a fasta file to Galaxy and then try to use it (in a blast search) as the query sequence, I get the error message below, although the uploaded fasta file is present in the history. Can anyone tell me what the problem could be? Is there some other step I

Re: [galaxy-user] Galaxy error: can't fine fasta file

2012-09-17 Thread Jennifer Jackson
Hello Kenneth, Are you using BLAST+ in a local install or cloud instance? The problem may be that the query dataset needs to have the datatype assigned as fasta. To do this, click on the pencil icon for the dataset to reach the Edit Attributes form. Then either scroll down to (or click on the

Re: [galaxy-user] Galaxy error: can't fine fasta file

2012-09-17 Thread Jennifer Jackson
Hi Kenneth, Yes, target databases require indexes and *.loc file set-up. Please see this wiki for details. For Genbank data such as NR, FTP the pre-built indexes and use those (generating them with formatdb is not necessary). http://wiki.g2.bx.psu.edu/Admin/NGS%20Local%20Setup See the

Re: [galaxy-user] Galaxy error: can't fine fasta file

2012-09-17 Thread Jennifer Jackson
Hi Kenneth, It is likely that the path is wrong in the .loc file. It has to point to the actual files, not just the directory. Inside here /9720/genome_references/ncbi/nr-protein-db is where all the nr.* files are? In that case, the path should be