extract all fasta sequence from db v5

Question

[Xylanaser]

hey i have newest version 5 of blast nr db and I cant extract full fasta or else

$ blastdbcmd -entry all -dbtype prot -db nr -out nr.fasta

BLAST Database error: Error: Not a valid version 4 database.

can you tell me whats wrong? Can i extract only from v 4?

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

is version 4 compatible with blast v5 ? try to use version 4....

Answer 1

[GenoMax]

If you need the fasta sequence download from NCBI here (146 GB zip compressed file) : https://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/blast/db/FASTA/nr.gz