kbutela
We use this attached spreadsheet for students to document their notes and conclusions during the annotation process.

DanRussell
Hi Katie,

I think this error is due to not having a certain library installed on the particular version of Windows that's running. That library wasn't required until after the update earlier this year to use secure NCBI servers. I think I came across that error myself, and in my notes I have that I went to the link below and installed the Visual C++ package there, then restarted and it worked.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5555

UPDATE Sep 2021: The link above no longer works, but the file can be found at the link below now. Download it from within Windows and then run it, and make sure you close DNA Master and restart Windows before trying to BLAST again.

https://phagesdb.org/static/vcredist_x86.exe

Hopefully that helps,
–Dan

CCSNH-NHTI
Hi. I'm getting a Blast error: "Error sending requests to QBlast server". The one thing I see in Preferences that the Guide doesn't specify is on the Secure Connections page, I have drop down boxes next to what is checked and it is defaulted to TLS 1.2. Should it be SSL 2 or 3 instead? Or any other suggestions are very welcome.
Thanks