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#14 Blast wrapper not working

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nobody
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2008-03-13
2008-03-13
MarkusKi
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I've installed some of the wrappers coming with the wEMBOSS installation. Most importantly the one for blast2.
This is creating an acd file for blast, blast2seq etc. Those are obviously parsed by emboss explorer and do appear in the menue.
But when you try to run blast from within emboss explorer you get the following error message:

Error: '1 ' is not a valid menu option
Accepted short codes are: 1,2,3,4,5
Error: Bad menu option '1 '
Died: blast terminated: Bad value for '-program' with -auto defined

I'm not sure if this is caused by emboss explorer parsing the acd file's options list oddly or by a somehow malformed options list.
But putting a space before the colon in list items isn't a syntax flaw, afaik?

The entry in the file blast.acd looks like this:

list: program [
standard: "Y"
information: "Select type of search you want to run"
help: "Search type : nuc. or prot."
values: "1 : blastn (nuc against nuc) ; 2 : blastp (prot against
prot) ; 3 : blastx (nuc translated against prot) ; 4 : tblastn
(prot against nuc translated) ; 5 : tblastx (nuc translated
against nuc translated)"
default: "2"
]

Regards,
Markus

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