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  • Zapages
    Member
    • Oct 2012
    • 98

    BBtool's Fetchnt Error

    Hi Everyone,

    I hope to test bbtool's sketch tool our bioinformatics needs. Before we proceed to doing any tests, we are having issues with retrieving the pre made/indexed NT database.

    We ran the fetchNT.sh , which was included in bbtools package.


    Unfortunately we are receiving the following error:

    Code:
    java -ea -Xmx1g -Xms1g -cp /opt/conda/opt/bbmap-38.86-0/current/ tax.RenameGiToTaxid -Xmx1g in=stdin.fa.gz out=renamed.fa.gz pigz=32 unpigz bgzip zl=8 server ow shrinknames maxbadheaders=5000 badheaders=badHeaders.txt taxpath=/BBSketch/taxonomy
    Executing tax.RenameGiToTaxid [-Xmx1g, in=stdin.fa.gz, out=renamed.fa.gz, pigz=32, unpigz, bgzip, zl=8, server, ow, shrinknames, maxbadheaders=5000, badheaders=badHeaders.txt, taxpath=/BBSketch/taxonomy]
    
     
    
    java.lang.Exception: Maximum bad headers exceeded: 5000
        at shared.KillSwitch.kill(KillSwitch.java:96)
        at tax.RenameGiToTaxid.updateHeadersFromServer_fasta(RenameGiToTaxid.java:629)
        at tax.RenameGiToTaxid.updateHeadersFromServer(RenameGiToTaxid.java:527)
        at tax.RenameGiToTaxid.processInner_server(RenameGiToTaxid.java:737)
        at tax.RenameGiToTaxid.process(RenameGiToTaxid.java:249)
        at tax.RenameGiToTaxid.main(RenameGiToTaxid.java:38)

    Is there any way to fix this issue/error?

    Thank you for the help.
  • GenoMax
    Senior Member
    • Feb 2008
    • 7142

    #2
    NCBI's FTP site appears to be offline today. So that may be one reason why this is not working.

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    • Zapages
      Member
      • Oct 2012
      • 98

      #3
      Thank you, unfortunately we are still experiencing the issue...

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      • GenoMax
        Senior Member
        • Feb 2008
        • 7142

        #4
        I just tried the script and was able to get it to work (did not let it finish). It started making two files. renamed.fa.gz (which has fasta sequences) and badHeaders.txt.

        Check to see if you are able to directly access NCBI FTP server from machine you are running this on.

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        • Zapages
          Member
          • Oct 2012
          • 98

          #5
          Originally posted by GenoMax View Post
          I just tried the script and was able to get it to work (did not let it finish). It started making two files. renamed.fa.gz (which has fasta sequences) and badHeaders.txt.

          Check to see if you are able to directly access NCBI FTP server from machine you are running this on.
          It works for me too, but it will eventually error out when the bad headers exceed more than 5000...

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          • GenoMax
            Senior Member
            • Feb 2008
            • 7142

            #6
            Create a ticket via BBMap's repo so Brian is aware of the problem.

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