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Sebastian Proost committed Apr 27, 2017
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## How it works

You need to run OrthoFinder using the **-op** option, to **only prepare** the blast files. At the end it will output the commands required and print them on the screen. This script will catch those commands and submit them as multi-threaded blast jobs.
You need to run OrthoFinder using the **-op** option, to **only prepare** the blast files. At the end OrthoFinder will print the required blastp commands to the screen. This script will catch those commands and submit them as individual jobs (multi-threaded).

As such the clusters scheduler and queue is used, which is much more efficient than the one included in OrthoFinder. Also this allows the BLAST to run on multiple machines simultaniously.

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Once the cluster is done performing all the BLASTs your should resume OrthoFinder using the command below

orthofinder.py -b <BLAST_DIR>

## Todo

* Replace hard-coded stuff (like name of the blast module and number of threads) with arguments

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