Errors with makeblastdb & blastn on very large file sets

Hello @aroebuck

NCBI BLAST+ tools had some corrections today at UseGalaxy.org. Full testing is still in progress but so far have turned out well. Even if your combination of tools/inputs is not marked as “pass” yet in the tracking ticket’s test matrix, consider a rerun anyway.

For any reruns, be sure to use the most current version of all tools in the BLAST+ tool suite (2.10.1+galaxy0), including NCBI BLAST+ makeblastdb Make BLAST database (Galaxy Version 2.10.1+galaxy0).

For very large data, any public Galaxy server can be a problematic choice. 300GB of raw data would exceed your quota space (storage). And even if that was increased, memory for data storage is unrelated to the memory used to execute tools – and the example you state would certainly fail for resources.

I added some tags to your post that link to prior Q&A about the GVL and other cloud options.

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Thanks!