[ogsa-wg] formatdb man page

Here is a link to the man page for formatdb. http://bioinformatics.ubc.ca/resources/tools/?name=formatdb The important options to note are the one to choose whether it's a protein or a nucleotide database, and the other is to generate indices or not. A typical invocation, given a protein database in FASTA format called ecoli.aa that I want indices for, I run: formatdb -i ecoli.aa -p T -o T and the resulting files will be generated: ecoli.aa.phr ecoli.aa.pin ecoli.aa.pnd ecoli.aa.pni ecoli.aa.psd ecoli.aa.psi ecoli.aa.psq And in the blastall command I reference the database named 'ecoli.aa'. By the way ... many people just deploy the generated files. -- Chris