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All posts created by DanRussell

| posted 24 Feb, 2016 20:35
Jeffrey Lawrence is aware of the issue and is working on it now. If he comes up with a fix and/or if there's anything to report, we'll let you know as soon as we do!

–Dan
Posted in: DNA MasterBLAST in DNAM
| posted 24 Feb, 2016 14:49
Hi Keith et al,

Yes, I'm seeing some slower peformance for sure in the VM DNA Master. For some functions, it's quite quick, but for others it drags. I hit a snag when I tried to import a fasta file that was about 170 kb long. It froze, and never made it through. I tried repeating, adjusting VM memory, etc., but nothing seemed to help. That would obviously be a dealbreaker, but perhaps we can figure out some workarounds or improvements. The 2017 SEA VM will use the newer version of Ubuntu, so perhaps those upgrades will help.

I'm curious as to whether some of the problems might relate to the artificial PC file system that's set up by wine, and whether we can change some settings to improve along those lines.

–Dan
Posted in: DNA MasterBeta Test: DNA Master within the SEA VM
| posted 24 Feb, 2016 14:45
Joseph Ross
What do the X's mean? You have to mentally scoot the top line over a few spaces to line it up properly, but even still it's interesting that it recognizes some of the Xs as an identity to the target and some not. I've never seen this before. This is from LilDestine, in the product from the ORF that DNA Master calls starting at bp9002. It's a tail protein according to BLASTp at least.

Hi Joe,

Those Xs represent a "region of low complexity". What that basically means is that the amino acids there are quite similar to one another, or there are repetitive patterns, and as such they're bait for lots of meaningless alignments. Here's a link to NCBI's explanation. It's not something you should worry about, though!

–Dan
Posted in: DNA MasterOdd BLASTp alignment result
| posted 24 Feb, 2016 14:39
jparker
jparker
Hello,
We are trying to BLAST in DNAM and are getting an "Integer Overflow" error message. This is a new one for us. Any thoughts? This was from trying to BLAST a single gene at 7pm PST, so shouldn't be PEAK hours.
Thanks,
Jordan

Then we got this:
Sending BLAST request…
Waiting 74278080 seconds as requested…
smile

Hi Jordan,

You can't just wait the 2.4 years for this result? smile

Seriously, though, it looks like we're having the same issue. We'll let you know if we figure anything out.

–Dan
Posted in: DNA MasterBLAST in DNAM
| posted 18 Feb, 2016 16:00
GregFrederick@letu.edu
Dan Russell
Hi Greg,

The coding potential looks sparse on the reverse strand in that region.

Quick question: what are the other genomes where that reverse-strand gene is called? Are any (or all) of those still in "_Draft" form?

–Dan

Dan:

I do not have the names in front of me. But when I looked at it with students the other day it appeared that all the hits were in the NCBI Blasts or in 'draft' genomes in the PHAGESBD database.

I concluded that those in the NCBI Blast hits were probably "auto-annotated" and deposited without QC (possibly by another group). We determined it was not likely a "real" gene. But it is an incredibly long ORF. So that call was not entirely 'comfortable'.

I did end up taking a quick look in Phamerator, and it seemed like the Final genomes all had removed that reverse-strand gene, while the Draft ones still had it. So probably dropping it is the way to go.

–Dan
Posted in: Gene or not a GeneCluster G genes spanning the COS site
| posted 16 Feb, 2016 21:12
coomansr
All,
We have the same. Do you suggest just using the other 2 databases or selecting another as a third?
Roy

Hi Roy,

I think just going with the two recommended databases is fine.

–Dan
Posted in: Functional AnnotationHHPred databases
| posted 12 Feb, 2016 22:16
Hi all,

If you've successfully set up the SEA VM, but are still struggling with DNA Master, you might be interested in giving this new approach a shot. It allows you to run DNA Master within the SEA VM itself. It should be emphasized that this is a beta test only and is only recommended if you're an intrepid type and not worried about potential hiccups. That said, this has a lot of potential to be the future of how SEA-PHAGES uses DNA Master, and so any feedback we get would be welcome.

I'll post a link to the instructions for doing this. Please use this forum to document any issues with the installation and/or running of DNA Master within the VM.

http://seaphages.org/media/docs/DNA_Master_on_SEAVM_instructions.docx

(Big thanks to Kristen Butela, Tammy Adair, Keith Hutchison, and others who have been troubleshooting non-Windows DNA Master.)

Thanks,
–Dan

Edited 12 Feb, 2016 22:21
Posted in: DNA MasterBeta Test: DNA Master within the SEA VM
| posted 12 Feb, 2016 15:08
Hi Greg,

The coding potential looks sparse on the reverse strand in that region.

Quick question: what are the other genomes where that reverse-strand gene is called? Are any (or all) of those still in "_Draft" form?

–Dan
Posted in: Gene or not a GeneCluster G genes spanning the COS site
| posted 12 Feb, 2016 14:58
andersonr24@gator.uhd.edu
Is it possible to be emailed the SeaVM file? I am a student and I am trying to annotate, but unable to comlplete without this file. Thanks!

andersonr24@gator.uhd.edu

Yep, just sent them to you.

–Dan
Posted in: SEA-PHAGES Virtual MachineStudent download of 2016 VM
| posted 11 Feb, 2016 14:46
(Also, make sure you restart Phamerator once the database update is complete.)
Posted in: PhameratorSeemingly "uneven" updating of Phamerator db