Could I get the species name list from a blast database?

[arkilis]

I was thinking is there anyway to get the species name list from a blast db, I saw they are binary files.

I found this:

blastdbcmd -db [db name] -info, but actually I don't have the blastdbcmd installed on our server.

Any thoughts? Cheers,

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Here is what I tried on blastdbcmd, no species name found anyway.

Database: Kog
4,825 sequences; 2,336,026 total residues

Date: Jun 2, 2009 10:24 AM Longest sequence: 5,019 residues

Volumes:
/usr/local/agrf/data/ncbi-blast/linked_databases/Kog

[maubp]

BLAST databases can record the species (via an NCBI taxid) for each sequence, so there can be many species in a single database. You can use the out and outfmt options to blastdbcmd to get this information:

 -outfmt <String>
   Output format, where the available format specifiers are:
   		%f means sequence in FASTA format
   		%s means sequence data (without defline)
   		%a means accession
   		%g means gi
   		%o means ordinal id (OID)
   		%i means sequence id
   		%t means sequence title
   		%l means sequence length
   		%h means sequence hash value
   		%T means taxid
   		%e means membership integer
   		%L means common taxonomic name
   		%S means scientific name
   		%K means taxonomic super kingdom
   		%P means PIG
   		%m means sequence masking data.
   		   Masking data will be displayed as a series of 'N-M' values
   		   separated by ';' or the word 'none' if none are available.
   	If '%f' is specified, all other format specifiers are ignored.
   	For every format except '%f', each line of output will correspond
   	to a sequence.

e.g.

$ blastdbcmd -db pdbaa -outfmt "%a %T %K %S %L" -entry all | head
1VS5_R 562 Bacteria Escherichia coli Escherichia coli
1VS7_R 562 Bacteria Escherichia coli Escherichia coli
3I1M_R 83333 Bacteria Escherichia coli K-12 Escherichia coli K-12
3I1O_R 83333 Bacteria Escherichia coli K-12 Escherichia coli K-12
3I1Q_R 83333 Bacteria Escherichia coli K-12 Escherichia coli K-12
3I1S_R 83333 Bacteria Escherichia coli K-12 Escherichia coli K-12
3I1Z_R 83333 Bacteria Escherichia coli K-12 Escherichia coli K-12
3I21_R 83333 Bacteria Escherichia coli K-12 Escherichia coli K-12
3KC4_R 83333 Bacteria Escherichia coli K-12 Escherichia coli K-12
3OR9_R 83333 Bacteria Escherichia coli K-12 Escherichia coli K-12

For this to work, in addition to the BLAST database, you also need the taxonomy information. Download ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/db/taxdb.tar.gz then unzip this next to your other BLAST databases.