I am wondering if you need to be in the same directory as the database when you run mpiformatdb for it to not generate (null). On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 16:46, Osborne, John wrote: > >Note: For some reason, I seem to remember needing to put a > >"Data=/path/to/scoring/matrices" as the third line in mpiblast.conf. I > >make sure this is a shared path. > > > I put that in there as the 3rd line, it worked, but then I removed it and it > still works. Not sure what is going on, but it seems to find the PAM > matrices now. Can anybody else here testify as to whether they put it in > the > last line of mpiblast.conf? > > >What was your original mpiformatdb line? > > mpiformatdb -f /usr/local/bioinformatics/etc/mpiblast.conf -N 20 -i > /scratch/data/nr -o T -p T > > My mpiblast.conf still has just the two lines pointing to the shared and > local storage. It was > run from a bash shell script, and the offending null filled file was located > where I ran > the bash script from. > > -John > > > _______________________________________________ > Bioclusters maillist - Bioclusters@bioinformatics.org > https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioclusters -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Scalable Informatics LLC, email: landman@scalableinformatics.com web : http://scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 612 4615