[BiO BB] Testing blast, getting 'Unable to open BLOSUM62' error?

[Pamela Culpepper]

Create a file -- .ncbirc in your home directory and add the following lines 
--

[NCBI]
data=/home/user/blast/data

[BLAST]
BLASTDB=/home/user/blast/db
BLASTMAT=/home/user/blast/data

Pam


>From: "Dr. Christoph Gille" <christoph.gille at charite.de>
>Reply-To: "The general forum at Bioinformatics.Org" 
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>To: "The general forum at Bioinformatics.Org" 
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>Subject: Re: [BiO BB] Testing blast, getting 'Unable to open BLOSUM62' 
>error?
>Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 23:03:16 +0100 (CET)
>
>I had similiar problems some time ago and I could only blast
>when I had been in the directory where blast was installed.
>Even though I set all shell variables correctly.
>
>If you do not solve this problem think about installing WU-blast
>instead of NCBI. It might also be  faster.
>
>
>
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