Exit Code

Meaning

0

Success

1

Error in query sequence(s) or BLAST options

2

Error in BLAST database

3

Error in BLAST engine

4

Out of memory

5

Network error connecting to NCBI to fetch sequence data

6

Error creating output files

255

Unknown error

From: Appendices

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