Question 1:
I'm running the following:
blast-2.2.26/bin/blastpgp -i protein.fasta -j 5 -o file -d nr
where protein.fasta is a fasta file containing a single protein sequence. This produces no output and the -o file is empty.
Question 2:
I was able to successfully use:
blast-2.2.26/bin/formatdb -i family_of_proteins.fas -o T -s T
to create database files. However, this produced multiple files, .phr, .pin, .psd, .psi, .psq. Which one of these should I pass with the -d flag to use my own database?
Thank you!