NCBI BLAST+ on local Galaxy and associated .loc file entries

Question: NCBI BLAST+ on local Galaxy and associated .loc file entries

2.0 years ago by

Hi,

I recently downloaded a local instance of galaxy and added the NCBI BLAST+ tool from the toolshed. Now I downloaded both the nt and the nr databases from ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/db/ but when installed, only the nr database shows up. The databases are intsalled as followed:

nt(tab)NCBI nt 01 Nov 2016(tab)/media/lucas/Verbatim_2TB/BLAST/nt/nt in blastdb.loc
nr(tab)NCBI nr 01 Nov 2016(tab)/media/lucas/Verbatim_2TB/BLAST/nr/nr in blastdb_p.loc

Does anyone know how I can fix this?

Kind regards, Lucas van der Gouw

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modified 2.0 years ago by Jennifer Hillman Jackson ♦ 25k • written 2.0 years ago by lp.vandergouw • 10

Hello,

Few things to check:

Indexes are uncompressed
Differences between with the "base name" for the nr indexes and what is in the loc file
Do not use symbolic links - avoid these and use the direct full path
Restart after changes to see the effect

If you still have trouble after that, run the command below, then post the results, along with the exact lines from the blastdb.loc for the target database and we can help with syntax.

% ls -alh /media/lucas/Verbatim_2TB/BLAST/nt | head 20 > out

ADD REPLY • link written 2.0 years ago by Jennifer Hillman Jackson ♦ 25k

Hi Jennefer,

The indexes are all uncompressed, are all called nt..* and the path given in the blastdb.loc file is the absolute path. The output of the command is as follows:

 total 42G
drwx------ 1 lucas lucas  192K Nov 20 17:50 .
drwx------ 1 lucas lucas  512K Nov 18 12:38 ..
-rw------- 2 lucas lucas   14M Oct 28 13:09 nt.00.nhd
-rw------- 2 lucas lucas  311K Oct 28 13:09 nt.00.nhi
-rw------- 2 lucas lucas  136M Oct 28 23:07 nt.00.nhr
-rw------- 2 lucas lucas  9,1M Oct 28 23:07 nt.00.nin
-rw------- 2 lucas lucas  7,1M Oct 28 13:09 nt.00.nnd
-rw------- 2 lucas lucas   29K Oct 28 13:09 nt.00.nni
-rw------- 2 lucas lucas  3,1M Oct 28 13:09 nt.00.nog

and here is the content of the bastdb.loc file:

  (bunch of commented lines)

nt  NCBI nt 01 Nov 2016 /media/lucas/Verbatim_2TB/BLAST/nt/nt

note that I used the exact same syntax for the nr database in bastdb_p.loc (replaced nt with nr) and that works like a charm

ADD REPLY • link modified 2.0 years ago • written 2.0 years ago by lp.vandergouw • 10

What happens if you change the file permissions so that they are user, group, world readable/executable? Restart Galaxy after the change.

ADD REPLY • link written 2.0 years ago by Jennifer Hillman Jackson ♦ 25k

so for some reason my file won't change: neither via GUI nor via

sudo chmod -R 777 /media/lucas/Verbatim_2TB/BLAST/nt

the nr files have the same permissions as the nt files

I decided to try and get my taxonomic profiles some other way, so I downloaden MetaPhlAn2 from the toolshed. However, same as blastn, it can not find the database even after changing the .loc file to contain:

mpa_v20_m200    Defaut database with clade-specific marker genes /media/lucas/Verbatim_2TB/metaphlan2/db_v20/mpa_v20_m200

ADD REPLY • link written 2.0 years ago by lp.vandergouw • 10

Lucas, isn't nt & nr both Nucleotides?

ADD REPLY • link written 2.0 years ago by Bjoern Gruening ♦ 5.1k

from the NCBI BLAST readme:

nr.*tar.gz                    | Non-redundant protein sequences from GenPept, 
                                Swissprot, PIR, PDF, PDB, and NCBI RefSeq
nt.*tar.gz                    | Partially non-redundant nucleotide sequences from 
                                all traditional divisions of GenBank, EMBL, and DDBJ 
                                excluding GSS,STS, PAT, EST, HTG, and WGS.

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