Execute an external BLAST program in PHP
I want to execute a blastx search application in PHP instead of Linux console text terminal. The actual command line arguments would be ( see definition of refer ): ./blastx -query $input -db ${Sbjct}_db -evalue 0.0001 -outfmt 6 -out /path/to/output.tsv Here's my PHP partial code. exec(' /path/to/blastx -query /path/to/PAO1.fasta -db /path/to/VFDB_setB_pro -evalue 0.0001 -outfmt 6 -out /path/to/output.tsv '); However, when I call exec() function in PHP program there is nothing happened. I also tried another method. It return error code 1. Here is my php exec() content: exec('sh /path/to