[Bioclusters] NCBI database download and format code

[Jeremy Mann]

> On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 18:29, Jeremy Mann wrote:
>> I am curious if any knows of any commercial or open source solution to
>> breaking up the NCBI dbs into various sizes. Here, our present
>> solution is
>
> You can use the "formatdb -v N" option to have the database
> automatically divided into groups of N x 10**6 letters.  I would
> recommend this route for the database formatting side.  Keep the
> original db around for the other tools.

Then how would you tell blastall which nodes have which *piece* of the
database?


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