Hi all.
I recently installed the latest version of Blast (standalone) on a Win XP machine and altered the appropriate path settings, i.e., C:\blast\bin. Having searched the web for an example of using blast from within Perl, I found an example that uses blastall but this program is not listed in the aforementioned folder. Does anyone have experience in conducting a blast search with perl (not bioperl)? Is there an easy method to determine if I have installed blast correctly? I did construct an ncbi.ini folder in C:\windows and it looks like the following:
; Start the section for BLAST configuration
[BLAST]
; Specifies the path where BLAST databases are installed
BLASTDB=C:\\blast\\bin
; Specifies the data sources to use for automatic resolution
; for sequence identifiers
DATA_LOADERS=none
; Specifies the BLAST database to use resolve protein sequences
;BLASTDB_PROT_DATA_LOADER=nr
; Specifies the BLAST database to use resolve protein sequences
;BLASTDB_NUCL_DATA_LOADER=nt
; Windowmasker settings (experimental)
[WINDOW_MASKER]
WINDOW_MASKER_PATH=C:\\blast\\bin\\windowmasker
; end of file
Thanks for the help.
Caitlin
