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          lang="EN-US">Hi Jean-Nicolas</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span>,<br>
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        like your sequence files contains some weird characters that
        Blast chokes on.  Use "od -c" to check, there should only be
        normal characters and \n in there.</p>
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        /Erik<br>
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      On 2014-03-27 13:59, Jean-Nicolas Audet, Mr wrote:<br>
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        <p><span lang="EN-US">Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p><span lang="EN-US">I’ve been trying to make InParanoid work
            using de novo transcriptomes of two non-model species
            (birds) I assembled with Trinity. They were 'translated' to
            protein sequences using Transdecoder. The resulting fasta
            file I'm trying to use in InParanoid looks like this (~30
            000 seqs):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier
            New";mso-fareast-language:FR-CA" lang="EN-US">>comp100291_c0_seq1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier
            New";mso-fareast-language:FR-CA" lang="EN-US">LPKKILLPIQQVLGHLLLALSYRGKVMQVKALKSKHEHNGPETLDAFLSSKLVVVKQPRE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier
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            style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier
            New";mso-fareast-language:FR-CA" lang="EN-US">>comp102162_c0_seq1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier
            New";mso-fareast-language:FR-CA" lang="EN-US">PNMTLHFLKSSPGSWRLSGLVLIPYVTETISGSCETLTRLQMPAHIQQSRWKAKHGPRIL<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier
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            style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier
            New";mso-fareast-language:FR-CA" lang="EN-US">CQEQKWQKGNREEKGWAGVTVWGAYFPYLLIRCPNHQTSTPLSIHSQQHFMLCIIICPFS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier
            New";mso-fareast-language:FR-CA" lang="EN-US">WLKPPVKTTQMFKGFFFKSGLKKFLALFLISWAAFATDRPLLGKQQSR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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          style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
            style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
            Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:FR-CA"
            lang="EN-US">I tried the example fasta files supplied with
            the program (called SC and EC) and it works, but when I use
            my files, it's stuck at the first step and it does not
            create any file (nor disk usage) after days. Here is what I
            get with my fasta files:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier
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            module bio/ncbi-blast-2.2.22.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier
            New";mso-fareast-language:FR-CA" lang="EN-US">Formatting
            BLAST databases<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier
            New";mso-fareast-language:FR-CA" lang="EN-US">Done
            formatting<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier
            New";mso-fareast-language:FR-CA" lang="EN-US">Starting
            BLAST searches...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier
            New";mso-fareast-language:FR-CA" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier
            New";mso-fareast-language:FR-CA" lang="EN-US">Starting
            first BLAST pass for bf - bf on [blastall] WARNING: the -C 3
            argument is currently experimental<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
          style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
            style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
            Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:FR-CA"
            lang="EN-US">It then stays like this forever (I tried up to
            6 days with 24 CPUs and 256G).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
          style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
            style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
            Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:FR-CA"
            lang="EN-US">I also tried supplying my Blast results
            (inter-sample) generated myself that I parsed with their
            supplied parser but then it still stays forever at the same
            state, again without generating any file:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier
            New";mso-fareast-language:FR-CA" lang="EN-US">Done
            BLAST searches. Starting ortholog detection...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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          style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
            style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
            Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:FR-CA"
            lang="EN-US">I tried with and without bootstraping,
            multitreading (-a16 option) or not, as I said with or
            without supplied blast results and I also cleaned my fasta
            files for any weird characters (removed annotations, all ' *
            ', spaces, empty lines and dots. Now I'm running out of
            ideas... I'm using a Unix cluster. I tried these jobs using
            up to 4 to 24 CPUs with 8 to 256G memory.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
            Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:FR-CA"
            lang="EN-US">Finally, since it was working with SC and EC, I
            tried with a small subset of my transcriptomes (a few
            thousands sequences) and it worked. Thus it seems to me that
            the problem could be that InParanoid cannot take more than,
            say, 10000 sequences. I could split my transcriptomes into
            several smaller files of specified sequence ranges but then
            the orthologs that do not have the exact same length will
            have a chance to be missed if they are in two different
            split files.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
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            lang="EN-US">Thanks in advance for your help,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            lang="EN-US">Jean-Nicolas</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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