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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=2>Hi, I am new to emboss. have question in database
setup. </FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=2>I have a file in the directory
/data/maoj/emboss/db/mouse/ called 'test.dat'. this file has 9 entries in
embl format. i ran dbiflat, acnum.hit, acnum.trg, division.lkp, entrynam.idx
were generated. </FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=2>then I setup a .embossrc file in my home dir as
follows :</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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size=2>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=2># Logfile - set this to a file that any user can
append to<BR># and EMBOSS applications will automatically write log
information</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=2># SET emboss_logfile
/home/db/emboss/tmp/log</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=2>DB test
[<BR> type:
N<BR> method:
emblcd<BR> format:
embl<BR> dir:
/data/maoj/emboss/db/mouse<BR> file:
"*.dat"<BR> release:
"1"<BR> comment: "Test
DB"<BR> ]</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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size=2>-------------------------------------------------</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=2></FONT></STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=2>when i run seqret and try to retrieve 1 of the 9
entries, i got following error:</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=2></FONT></STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=2>% seqret<BR>Reads and writes (returns)
sequences<BR>Input sequence(s): test:AB001363<BR>Warning: Cannot open division
file '<null>' for database 'test'<BR>Warning: seqCdQry failed<BR>Error:
Unable to read sequence 'test:AB001363'</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=2>Please help. Thank you in
advance.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=2></FONT></STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=2>Jean</FONT></STRONG></DIV></BODY></HTML>