<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi there, I'm new to BioCocoa (well, I've discovered it yesterday) and pretty new to Cocoa programming. I would like to start using this framework for some proteomics app. <DIV>I would like to know if there is a way to read database formatted for NCBI blast with formatdb. Ok, I'm also going to read the documentation!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>d<BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Courier New; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: Helvetica; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">/*</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: Helvetica; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Davide Cittaro</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: Helvetica; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">HPC and </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Bioinformatics Systems @ Informatics Core</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; ; font-family: Helvetica; "><BR style="font-family: Helvetica; "></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: Helvetica; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">IFOM - Istituto FIRC di Oncologia Molecolare</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: Helvetica; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">via adamello, 16</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: Helvetica; ">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