BlastX remote: where to place taxdb?

Question

[marongiu.luigi]

Hello

I am running BlastX on remote and I would like to get the organism of the target. I am running

$ blastx -db nr -remote -max_target_seqs 5 -outfmt  '6 qseqid sseqid evalue bitscore sgi sacc staxids sscinames' -query sequence.fa

but I get the warning:

Warning: [blastx] Taxonomy name lookup from taxid requires installation of taxdb database with ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/db/taxdb.tar.gz
Query_1 gi|486047707|ref|WP_001506561.1|    2.87e-13    66.2    486047707   WP_001506561    2;562;164546    N/A;N/A;N/A
Query_1 gi|519784041|gb|EPP30712.1| 3.19e-13    66.2    519784041   EPP30712    1112248 N/A
Query_1 gi|1123886851|ref|WP_074413349.1|   3.21e-13    66.2    1123886851  WP_074413349    1783272 N/A
Query_1 gi|476900345|gb|ENB91008.1| 3.21e-13    66.2    476900345   ENB91008    1116146 N/A
Query_1 gi|1452330068|ref|WP_116348784.1|   3.23e-13    66.2    1452330068  WP_116348784    164546  N/A

I downloaded the taxdb files but where shall I place them so that blastx can see them? why is it not getting them directly from remote?

Tx

Answer 1

[GenoMax]

Did you try the solution here: getting sscinames in viral blastx query

You has asked this question a few months back which contained the solution above : C: remote blast requires installation of taxdb database

[marongiu.luigi]

It is working now, but only on shell. I am having problems with the batch mode. Is there a config file I can modify? Thank you