[Bioclusters] [Fwd: [blast-announce] #031 addendum - FOLLOWUP Reorganization of the Pre-formatted Database files.]

[Joe Landman]

For those interested folks...

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From: Scott McGinnis <mcginnis@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov>
To: blast-announce@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Subject: [blast-announce] #031 addendum - FOLLOWUP Reorganization of the Pre-formatted Database files.
Date: 26 Feb 2003 14:10:36 -0500


Due to technical issues, the chromosome database will no longer be
split into euk_genomes.gz and prok_genomes.gz (see previous
[blast-announce] #031 below). Instead we are creating a two organism
specific genomes BLAST files and a third file containing genomes from
all other species. The files will be called; human_genomic.gz
mouse_genomic.gz and other_genomic.gz

These files are located on the FTP server at

ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/blast/db/FormattedDatabases/

These changes will take effect immediately. 

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[blast-announce] #031 - Reorganization of the Pre-formatted Database
files.

Reorganization of the Pre-formatted Database files.

In order to make FTP transfers of the large NCBI BLAST Preformatted
database files more convenient, we will be splitting the files
est.tar.gz and htgs.tar.gz into several smaller files.

The file organization will include numbered files (example
est.00.tar.gz, est.01.tar.gz) with the initial "est.00" file containing
database alias files (with the .nal extension) for the entire
database.  Alias files are created by formatdb program at the time of
formatting and allow you to search several formatted files as one
single database.

Therefore it will not be necessary to merge the files in any manner.
You will be able to download all the EST or HTGS files, and after
untarring and uncompressing them search them normally as 'est' or
'htgs'.

In addition the chromosome database will be divided into prokaryote and
eukaryote chromosome databases. In addition the chromosome database
will be divided into databases, prokaryote and eukaryote. These well be
called euk_genomes.gz and prok_genomes.gz.

These changes will take effect on Tuesday February 18th 2003.

If you have any questions please contact blast-help@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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Joseph Landman, Ph.D
Scalable Informatics LLC,
email: landman@scalableinformatics.com
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