my $hu_seq = $maid_dir."\\".$maid."_hu.fa"; my $hd_seq = $maid_dir."\\".$maid."_hd.fa"; my $contig = $maid_dir."\\".$maid."_fasta.contigs"; open(my $alignment, ">".$maid_dir."\\".$maid."_aln.out"); my $command = 'c:\\blast\bin\blastall -p blastn -d "$hu_seq $hd_seq" -i $contig -o $alignment'; print $command,"\n"; system($command);