blast evalue strange behaviour

[atma_weapon]

hello, I am experiencing a strange behaviour of blastn with the option "evalue":

$ blastn -task blastn -query _p -db genome.fa -outfmt 6
snoRNA_CD33 Chromosome_5 76.85 108 19 5 4 109 2773492 2773389 4e-11 66.2
snoRNA_CD33 Chromosome_2 91.30 23 1 1 45 66 7139854 7139876 2.9 30.1
snoRNA_CD33 Chromosome_1 94.74 19 1 0 28 46 3318593 3318575 2.9 30.1

good, found a hit at 4e-11 evalue


$ blastn -task blastn -query _p -db genome.fa -outfmt 6 -evalue 1
snoRNA_CD33 Chromosome_5 76.85 108 19 5 4 109 2773492 2773389 4e-11 66.2

same hit setting the evalue threshold at 1, as expected


$ blastn -task blastn -query _p -db genome.fa -outfmt 6 -evalue 0.1
$


no result! why? 4e-11 is still less than 0.1....

any idea?

[mastal]

Have you tried expressing 0.1 as 1e-01 instead?

[atma_weapon]

Have you tried expressing 0.1 as 1e-01 instead?

yes, same result

[maubp]

Are you using the latest version, BLAST+ 2.2.29 currently?

If so, I suggest you email the BLAST team with a bug report (and ideally offer to provide your data as a test case),

[atma_weapon]

Are you using the latest version, BLAST+ 2.2.29 currently?

If so, I suggest you email the BLAST team with a bug report (and ideally offer to provide your data as a test case),

ok, it looks like it happened only with 2.2.27, with the new version everything is ok, thanks