https://bioinformaticsonline.com/snippets/view/43426/command-line-to-download-blast-database-protein? https://bioinformaticsonline.com/snippets/view/43426/command-line-to-download-blast-database-protein Tue, 05 Oct 2021 00:06:08 -0500 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/snippets/view/43426/command-line-to-download-blast-database-protein #download all available nr - protein database as a single file #Database location - NCBI where all databases are available ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/db/ https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/db/ # Database detail / description nr.*tar.gz | Non-redundant protein sequences from GenPept, Swissprot, PIR, PDF, PDB, and NCBI RefSeq #First run this to download wget 'ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/db/nr.*.tar.gz' #cat them into one cat nr.*.tar.gz | tar -zxvi -f - -C .]]> Abhi