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BLAST® Command Line Applications User Manual [Internet]. Bethesda (MD): National Center for Biotechnology Information (US); 2008-.

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How to check BLAST database integrity?

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The blastdbcheck application can validate the integrity of a BLAST database. This may be helpful to do after you have downloaded a BLAST database. For instance, to validate the protein swissprot database, run the command:

$ blastdbcheck -db swissprot -dbtype prot

If the application reports any errors, please check that there is enough disk space available to store the BLAST database and/or try again.

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