I have been reading this.
I was able to write a basic query using blast n as follows:
It seems to me that I must replace tdb (I used makedb to create this) with the downloaded local nt database?
However, I now downloaded nt into local database and I have the following questions:
Thanks for considering my question and your patience. I am very new to all of this.
I was able to write a basic query using blast n as follows:
Code:
blastn -db ~/programming/blastexample/db/tdb -query ~/programming/blastexample/db/even_tribolium.fasta
However, I now downloaded nt into local database and I have the following questions:
- How can I blast my fasta file against local nt blast database?
- Are there options only to output the species name, contig, and E-value?
- Where did my nt local blast database go? ha ha ha.
Thanks for considering my question and your patience. I am very new to all of this.
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