How to rename the sequence name?
Mariana Monteiro
October 25, 2018
OmicsBox allows renaming the name of all selected sequences by converting, replacing or adding text to the actual sequence name.
How to combine two projects in OmicsBox?
Mariana Monteiro
October 23, 2018
OmicsBox allows combining two Functional Anlaysis projects which contain either the same identifiers or different ones.
How to Change the Temp Folder Location for Blast2GO
David Seide
June 27, 2016
Blast2GO can handle big data, but it needs plenty of free disk space in the systems temporary files folder. If you run into troubles with a shortage of disk space, follow this guide to manually change the location of the folder for Blast2GO temporary files to e.g. another partition.
How to Set Maximum Memory for Blast2GO
David Seide
June 27, 2016
Blast2GO automatically reserves up to 80% of the available system memory (i.e. RAM), which is fine in most cases. However, sometimes and especially on Linux, this can lead to excessive swapping and will slow down Blast2GO. Follow this guide to manually change the maximum amount of memory Blast2GO will be allowed to use.
Some parts of Blast2GO 5 are not working (Show Blast Results, Welcome Part, Create Workflow) running Linux system.
Alejandro Rocamonde
June 8, 2016
You need to install some packages depending your distribution. For Ubuntu/Debian: apt-get install libxss1 libgconf-2-4 For Fedora: yum install libXScrnSaver libXScrnSaver.i686 GConf2 For CentOS: yum install libXScrnSaver GConf2
How to run Blast2GO installer in Linux systems?
Alejandro Rocamonde
June 2, 2016
To install Blast2GO in Linux systems follow the next steps: 0. Open a terminal in the folder where you have downloaded the installer. 1. Unzip the file: tar -xvf Blast2GO_unix_X_X_XX.zip 2. Make sure the .sh file has execution permissions: chmod +x Blast2GO_unix_X_X_XX.sh 3. Execute the .sh file: ./Blast2GO_unix_X_X_XX.sh An installation wizard should open. Just follow the instructions on screen. Note:
How to get Blast2GO installed in a central computer where multiple users have access?
Alejandro Rocamonde
May 31, 2016
This article describes how you can get Blast2GO installed in a central computer where multiple users have access and what you need to configure so that it doesn’t ask for the License key for every new user and the updates are performed centrally. 0.0. You need a Unix user group that common to all the users that will execute Blast2GO.
Reformat Uniprot/Swissprot Species Distribution
Mariana Monteiro
November 23, 2015
Reformat/adapt Blast XML results against a custom UniProt sequence database to generate a species distribution chart Problem: Empty species distribution chart Solution: Reformat your SwissProt/UniProt blast XML results The species distribution chart is a good way to visualise the species found for all blast hits for a given dataset. It is possible to generate this chart with OmicsBox from the toolbar: functional
Run Local Blast within OmicsBox
Mariana Monteiro
October 16, 2015
OmicsBox allows running Blast locally. The blast algorithm will run on the user’s computer against a database that is installed locally. In order to do so, we have to either download a pre-formatted NCBI database or format our own database (see this tutorial until step 3). Pre-formatted databases can be downloaded directly from the NCBI ftp or via a Perl script provided by the
