I ran into the following error when trying to build a database using makeblastdb (NCBI BLAST 2.2.23+).
> makeblastdb -in uniprot90.faa -dbtype prot -parse_seqids
Building a new DB, current time: 08/30/2010 12:00:11
New DB name: uniprot90.faa
New DB title: uniprot90.faa
Sequence type: Protein
Keep Linkouts: T
Keep MBits: T
Maximum file size: 1073741824B
Error: invalid string size parameter in function: basic_string::__getRep(size_t,size_t)
size: -2 is greater than maximum size: -51
I ran the corresponding command with the older version (formatdb) and got no errors, so I'm assuming it's not an issue with the sequence data. Does anyone know what might have caused this problem?