BLAST - SWISSPROT - problems

[alessa86]

Hi,

I am not an expert at bioinformatics, and I am having some problems with a database, I hope someone could help me!!

I download the latest swissprot Database from the EBI-Uniprot with wget at linux in our server. and then I made formatdb to the database, but if I make a blast against that database, in any format, I got just the name of the hit but not the description. I mean if I use the default format from blastall it says the name of the hit, but I don't get the alignment, and if I use the xml format, I get also that, it has a hit but I don't get the sequence of the hit.

I don´t know what happened, but I download the database many times and I got the same problem...someone could tell me what could be happening!!!

Or if someone knows any other link for download the swissprot database…

Thanks in advanced!!

[seqn]

I hope you know you can BLAST a sequence against Swissport database from the NCBI-BLAST page itself. You can choose this option after you enter the sequence and look down below the input box under "Choose Search Set". There is a drop down option and you can see 'swissport protein sequences (swissprot)' as one of the options. Hope this helps.

[alessa86]

Thanks a lot for you answer. But it would be more useful if I download the database, because I got a big .fasta file for doing blast with.

Maybe if you know the path to download that database from the NCBI, would be helpful.

Thanks again,