Calling a database from an SSH server to a local terminal to run hhblits query

Question

[Georgios]

Greetings! I want to run a query using hhblits and the database that I want to use for my query is stored in a SSH server. Any ideas how to retrieve the path of the database in order to run my query in a local terminal? Thank you in advance!

[colindaven]

You need to provide a lot more details, no one can help you with this information

Answer 1

[Michael]

You can try to mount the remote filesystem via ssh using sshfs: https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs This might work or not depending on your network bandwidth (in fact it might clog up your network, doing database searches on a network drive can be much slower than on a local drive) . It may be better to log in to the remote machine and run the command there, or to copy the remote database to the local machine using scp or rsync. Hope this helps.