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Why Does Blastdbcmd Produce The Error: Oid Not Found

hI,,,I am trying to extract fasta sequences from a local db using blastcmd command (NCBI BLAST) as follows blastdbcmd -db blastdb/9311 -dbtype prot -entry_batch 93hmmsearchacc.txt -out vivien.fasta

For the output i got fasta sequences which was my goal but my problem is that at the command line i get two error message"

: OID not found : OID not found

"Does it meet not all my sequences was extracted or?or wjat doe this message imply?

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updated by biostar • biostar • written by chevivien chevivien

It means that two ids listed in your 93hmmsearchacc.txt were not found from 9311

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written by 5heikki 5heikki

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There could be redundant sequences in nr database itself (due to recent updates or corrections) and those ids could not be retrieved as they are removed from the database.

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written by biostar • biostar

Thanks for the response

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