Thank you for your answer.
Hi
I want to make local database by uniref90 with this command:
./makeblastdb -in uniref90.fasta -dbtype prot -out uniref_db
but i get multiple psq, pin and phr files:
uniref_db.09.psq
uniref_db.09.pin
uniref_db.09.phr
uniref_db.08.psq
uniref_db.08.pin
uniref_db.08.phr
........................
Can anyone help me to solve this problem.
1 answer
Its not a problem, its normal. The database is very large, so makeblastdb breaks it up.
On our server, the nr database is in 83 parts for example. You only ever need to provide the 'stem name' of the database to blast, as it uses all the various extensions, so it will find the mulitple parts as normal.
In your case, you'd do something like:
blast -db /path/to/uniref_db <options> # note that the extension isnt specified for the DB.
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