Make a BLAST database 3-30-13
2015-01-13azim58 - Make a BLAST database 3-30-13
You may want to blast two fasta files against one another. To do this you
need to transform one of the blast files into a database with a command
like
makeblastdb -in prot_3-30-13.fa -dbtype prot -title protdb
or
makeblastdb -in hs_chr –input_type blastdb -dbtype nucl
Note that the fasta file has to be just right. The protein sequences
can't contain any spaces, and new lines should have both the \r and \n
symbols.
Note that two fasta files can often just be blasted against eachother
without making a blast database as well.