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Resume Blast search

Hi everybody,

I'm doing a blastx search with a stand-alone version in linux. My query file contains a big number of sequences (is a transcriptome assembly), so it takes some time to complete the analysis. For some reason (power goes out) at times the search is interrupted, so i need to start the analysis again from the beginning.

Is there a way to resume the analysis from a particular sequence in the query list?

Thank you so much!

Samuel G.

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written by sd.gamboa.t • sd.gamboa.t

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If you have a result file from the aborted run saved on your server look to see what query sequence was successfully blasted last (there may be a partial result at the end).

Remove all query sequences up to that point from original query file and restart the search with a NEW output file name to preserve the older one.

If old result file does not exist then you have no option but to start over :(

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written by GenoMax GenoMax

Hi, the results file does exist. I'm applying your suggestion

Thanks!!

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written by sd.gamboa.t • sd.gamboa.t

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