Vmatch'S Mkvtree Gives Illegal Character

Question

[hbw]

I am trying to contruct an index with Vmatch's mkvtree. If I use two input files together, I get an error:

../software/vmatch.distribution/mkvtree -db data/EST.gb data/mRNA.gb -dna -indexname index/napus -pl -v -allout
>data/EST.gb
reading file "data/EST.gb"
>data/mRNA.gb
reading file "data/mRNA.gb"
../software/vmatch.distribution/mkvtree: Illegal character 'L' in file "data/EST.gb" line 2

But if I use either of them separately, it works fine:

../software/vmatch.distribution/mkvtree -db data/EST.gb  -dna -indexname index/napus -pl -v -allout

or

../software/vmatch.distribution/mkvtree -db data/mRNA.gb -dna -indexname index/napus -pl -v -allout

The files are at http://www.putlocker.com/file/7C776C1CAFD1FA75 and a copy at http://www.filedropper.com/rawdatatar . The EST.gb file is large, so I needed a Linux machine of about 15GB memory to do make the index for it.

[SES]

Try concatenating the files and constructing an index from the one combined file. Maybe mkvtree does not like your invocation with two file names and is throwing an error, or there may be something wrong with your file format.