Table 1.

Troubleshooting Guide for Basic Protocol 1

Problem	Possible Cause	Solution
Receiving mail that says your job failed	You submitted an invalid FASTA file	Read the FASTA format description here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST/FASTA.shtml. Submit a valid FASTA file
Receiving mail that says your job failed	You submitted a FASTA file with non-unique IDs per sequence	Give each sequence a unique ID, and resubmit.