I did an mpiblast with some short queries in it. Naturally
they had problems, no surprise there. But I saw some
non-alpha numeric charcters in the warnings.
For comparison, NCBI produces this warning
[blastall] WARNING: [000.000]
gi|9626681|ref|NC_001474.1|_1_part21:
SetUpBlastSearch failed.
[blastall] ERROR: [000.000]
gi|9626681|ref|NC_001474.1|_1_part21: Blast:
[blastall] ERROR: [000.000]
gi|9626681|ref|NC_001474.1|_1_part21: Blast: Query
must be at least wordsize
While NCBI blast produces these.
[blastall] WARNING: lcl|tmpseq_35: SetUpBlastSearch
failed.
[blastall] ERROR: lcl|tmpseq_35: Blast: ŕ˝F
[blastall] ERROR: lcl|tmpseq_35: Blast: Query length 8 is
less than wordsize 11
[blastall] WARNING: lcl|tmpseq_35: SetUpBlastSearch
failed.
[blastall] ERROR: lcl|tmpseq_35: Blast: ?đ]F
[blastall] ERROR: lcl|tmpseq_35: Blast: Query length 8 is
less than wordsize 11
[blastall] WARNING: lcl|tmpseq_35: SetUpBlastSearch
failed.
[blastall] ERROR: lcl|tmpseq_35: Blast: řcG
[blastall] ERROR: lcl|tmpseq_35: Blast: Query length 8 is
less than wordsize 11
[blastall] WARNING: lcl|tmpseq_35: SetUpBlastSearch
failed.
[blastall] ERROR: lcl|tmpseq_35: Blast: XčđF
[blastall] ERROR: lcl|tmpseq_35: Blast: Query length 8 is
less than wordsize 11