On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 8:56 PM, Shane Sturrock <shane@biomatters.com> wrote:
I've just been setting up our internal galaxy server and following the instructions to get the NCBI BLAST+ tool working but I kept getting stuck with it passing -db "" in rather than the actual database name. It turns out, because I had copied the examples in the blastdb_p.loc file, I had put two tabs in just as in the sample doc. This doesn't work. It has to be one tab.
You're seeing a double tab in the blastdb_p.loc.sample file? Which line? I should fix that.
However, I would say that it would be better for the code to be fixed so it can handle a variable number of tabs rather than being so strict.
But that would break valid situations where you might want an empty field in a table. OK, not likely with the BLAST databases, but it could apply to other *.loc files in Galaxy. Regards, Peter