Updates NCBI Blast Databases (e.g. for cron job)
By Alex Richter at Thu, Feb 23 2006 10:19am |
Description:
fetch_ncbi_db.pl is a script I wrote to automatically update the blast databases from NCBI. We regularly need to make sure the databases are up to date, so we set up a weekly cron job to download them. It does not check if the files have been updated before downloading them, since the databases we use are updated very regularly.
Author's Full Name:
Alexander Richter
Script File:
fetch_ncbi_db.pl.gz (1 KB)
Comments
Download link doesn't work
I tried to download this to compare it to the LaunchD script I wrote to do a similar thing. Sadly, it doesn't seem to exist when I click on the link to download the file.
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Ben Stanfield
Macintosh Systems Administrator
National Human Genome Research Institute