On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 23:50, Bala wrote: > I didn't find .ncbirc file in my stand allown blast > download from NCBI site, can you give me some info > regrading .ncbirc file content and where to > put(location) of the file. place this in the directory you are running your BLAST from. My file looks like this... [NCBI] Data=/work3/ncbi/data [BLAST] BLASTDB=/work3/ncbi/db Where the Data=/path section points to the scoring matrix directory, and the BLASTDB=/path section points to the location of the databases I use. -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D email: landman at scalableinformatics.com web : http://scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 612 4615