
                                  infoseq 



Function

   Displays some simple information about sequences

Description

   This is a small utility to list the sequences' USA, name, accession
   number, type (nucleic or protein), length, percentage C+G, and/or
   description.

   Any combination of these types of information can be easily selected
   or unselected.

   By default, the output file starts each line with the USA of the
   sequence being described, so the output file is a list file that can
   be manually edited and read in by any other EMBOSS program that can
   read in one or more sequence to be analysed.

Usage

   Here is a sample session with infoseq

   Display information on a sequence:


% infoseq tembl:x13776 
Displays some simple information about sequences

USA                      Database  Name           Accession      Type Length %G
C    Description
tembl-id:X13776          tembl          X13776         X13776         N    2167
   66.54  Pseudomonas aeruginosa amiC and amiR gene for aliphatic amidase regul
ation

   Go to the input files for this example

   Example 2

   Don't display the USA of a sequence:


% infoseq tembl:x13776 -nousa 
Displays some simple information about sequences

Database  Name           Accession      Type Length %GC    Description
tembl          X13776         X13776         N    2167   66.54  Pseudomonas aer
uginosa amiC and amiR gene for aliphatic amidase regulation

   Example 3

   Display only the name and length of a sequence:


% infoseq tembl:x13776 -only -name -length 
Displays some simple information about sequences

Name           Length
X13776         2167

   Example 4

   Display only the description of a sequence:


% infoseq tembl:x13776 -only -desc 
Displays some simple information about sequences

Description
Pseudomonas aeruginosa amiC and amiR gene for aliphatic amidase regulation

   Example 5

   Display the type of a sequence:


% infoseq tembl:x13776 -only -type 
Displays some simple information about sequences

Type
N

   Example 6

   Display information formatted with HTML:


% infoseq tembl:x13776 -html 
Displays some simple information about sequences


 USA Database Name Accession Type Length %GC Description

 tembl-id:X13776 tembl X13776 X13776 N 2167 66.54 Pseudomonas aeruginosa amiC a
nd amiR gene for aliphatic amidase regulation



Command line arguments

   Standard (Mandatory) qualifiers:
  [-sequence]          seqall     (Gapped) sequence(s) filename and optional
                                  format, or reference (input USA)

   Additional (Optional) qualifiers:
   -outfile            outfile    [stdout] If you enter the name of a file
                                  here then this program will write the
                                  sequence details into that file.
   -html               boolean    [N] Format output as an HTML table

   Advanced (Unprompted) qualifiers:
   -[no]columns        boolean    [Y] Set this option on (Y) to print the
                                  sequence information into neat, aligned
                                  columns in the output file. Alternatively,
                                  leave it unset (N), in which case the
                                  information records will be delimited by a
                                  character, which you may specify by using
                                  the -delimiter option. In other words, if
                                  -columns is set on, the -delimiter option is
                                  overriden.
   -delimiter          string     [|] This string, which is usually a single
                                  character only, is used to delimit
                                  individual records in the text output file.
                                  It could be a space character, a tab
                                  character, a pipe character or any other
                                  character or string. (Any string is
                                  accepted)
   -only               boolean    [N] This is a way of shortening the command
                                  line if you only want a few things to be
                                  displayed. Instead of specifying:
                                  '-nohead -noname -noacc -notype -nopgc
                                  -nodesc'
                                  to get only the length output, you can
                                  specify
                                  '-only -length'
   -[no]heading        boolean    [Y] Display column headings
   -usa                boolean    [@(!$(only))] Display the USA of the
                                  sequence
   -database           boolean    [@(!$(only))] Display 'database' column
   -name               boolean    [@(!$(only))] Display 'name' column
   -accession          boolean    [@(!$(only))] Display 'accession' column
   -gi                 boolean    [N] Display 'GI' column
   -version            boolean    [N] Display 'version' column
   -type               boolean    [@(!$(only))] Display 'type' column
   -length             boolean    [@(!$(only))] Display 'length' column
   -pgc                boolean    [@(!$(only))] Display 'percent GC content'
                                  column
   -description        boolean    [@(!$(only))] Display 'description' column

   Associated qualifiers:

   "-sequence" associated qualifiers
   -sbegin1            integer    Start of each sequence to be used
   -send1              integer    End of each sequence to be used
   -sreverse1          boolean    Reverse (if DNA)
   -sask1              boolean    Ask for begin/end/reverse
   -snucleotide1       boolean    Sequence is nucleotide
   -sprotein1          boolean    Sequence is protein
   -slower1            boolean    Make lower case
   -supper1            boolean    Make upper case
   -sformat1           string     Input sequence format
   -sdbname1           string     Database name
   -sid1               string     Entryname
   -ufo1               string     UFO features
   -fformat1           string     Features format
   -fopenfile1         string     Features file name

   "-outfile" associated qualifiers
   -odirectory         string     Output directory

   General qualifiers:
   -auto               boolean    Turn off prompts
   -stdout             boolean    Write standard output
   -filter             boolean    Read standard input, write standard output
   -options            boolean    Prompt for standard and additional values
   -debug              boolean    Write debug output to program.dbg
   -verbose            boolean    Report some/full command line options
   -help               boolean    Report command line options. More
                                  information on associated and general
                                  qualifiers can be found with -help -verbose
   -warning            boolean    Report warnings
   -error              boolean    Report errors
   -fatal              boolean    Report fatal errors
   -die                boolean    Report dying program messages

Input file format

   infoseq reads any sequence USAs.

  Input files for usage example

   'tembl:x13776' is a sequence entry in the example nucleic acid
   database 'tembl'

  Database entry: tembl:x13776

ID   X13776; SV 1; linear; genomic DNA; STD; PRO; 2167 BP.
XX
AC   X13776; M43175;
XX
DT   19-APR-1989 (Rel. 19, Created)
DT   14-NOV-2006 (Rel. 89, Last updated, Version 24)
XX
DE   Pseudomonas aeruginosa amiC and amiR gene for aliphatic amidase regulation
XX
KW   aliphatic amidase regulator; amiC gene; amiR gene.
XX
OS   Pseudomonas aeruginosa
OC   Bacteria; Proteobacteria; Gammaproteobacteria; Pseudomonadales;
OC   Pseudomonadaceae; Pseudomonas.
XX
RN   [1]
RP   1167-2167
RA   Rice P.M.;
RT   ;
RL   Submitted (16-DEC-1988) to the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ databases.
RL   Rice P.M., EMBL, Postfach 10-2209, Meyerhofstrasse 1, 6900 Heidelberg, FRG
.
XX
RN   [2]
RP   1167-2167
RX   DOI; 10.1016/0014-5793(89)80249-2.
RX   PUBMED; 2495988.
RA   Lowe N., Rice P.M., Drew R.E.;
RT   "Nucleotide sequence of the aliphatic amidase regulator gene of Pseudomona
s
RT   aeruginosa";
RL   FEBS Lett. 246(1-2):39-43(1989).
XX
RN   [3]
RP   1-1292
RX   PUBMED; 1907262.
RA   Wilson S., Drew R.;
RT   "Cloning and DNA seqence of amiC, a new gene regulating expression of the
RT   Pseudomonas aeruginosa aliphatic amidase, and purification of the amiC
RT   product.";
RL   J. Bacteriol. 173(16):4914-4921(1991).
XX
RN   [4]
RP   1-2167
RA   Rice P.M.;
RT   ;
RL   Submitted (04-SEP-1991) to the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ databases.
RL   Rice P.M., EMBL, Postfach 10-2209, Meyerhofstrasse 1, 6900 Heidelberg, FRG
.
XX
DR   GOA; Q51417.
DR   UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot; Q51417; AMIS_PSEAE.
XX


  [Part of this file has been deleted for brevity]

FT                   /replace=""
FT                   /note="ClaI fragment deleted in pSW36,  constitutive
FT                   phenotype"
FT   misc_feature    1
FT                   /note="last base of an XhoI site"
FT   misc_feature    648..653
FT                   /note="end of 658bp XhoI fragment, deletion in  pSW3 cause
s
FT                   constitutive expression of amiE"
FT   conflict        1281
FT                   /replace="g"
FT                   /citation=[3]
XX
SQ   Sequence 2167 BP; 363 A; 712 C; 730 G; 362 T; 0 other;
     ggtaccgctg gccgagcatc tgctcgatca ccaccagccg ggcgacggga actgcacgat        6
0
     ctacctggcg agcctggagc acgagcgggt tcgcttcgta cggcgctgag cgacagtcac       12
0
     aggagaggaa acggatggga tcgcaccagg agcggccgct gatcggcctg ctgttctccg       18
0
     aaaccggcgt caccgccgat atcgagcgct cgcacgcgta tggcgcattg ctcgcggtcg       24
0
     agcaactgaa ccgcgagggc ggcgtcggcg gtcgcccgat cgaaacgctg tcccaggacc       30
0
     ccggcggcga cccggaccgc tatcggctgt gcgccgagga cttcattcgc aaccgggggg       36
0
     tacggttcct cgtgggctgc tacatgtcgc acacgcgcaa ggcggtgatg ccggtggtcg       42
0
     agcgcgccga cgcgctgctc tgctacccga ccccctacga gggcttcgag tattcgccga       48
0
     acatcgtcta cggcggtccg gcgccgaacc agaacagtgc gccgctggcg gcgtacctga       54
0
     ttcgccacta cggcgagcgg gtggtgttca tcggctcgga ctacatctat ccgcgggaaa       60
0
     gcaaccatgt gatgcgccac ctgtatcgcc agcacggcgg cacggtgctc gaggaaatct       66
0
     acattccgct gtatccctcc gacgacgact tgcagcgcgc cgtcgagcgc atctaccagg       72
0
     cgcgcgccga cgtggtcttc tccaccgtgg tgggcaccgg caccgccgag ctgtatcgcg       78
0
     ccatcgcccg tcgctacggc gacggcaggc ggccgccgat cgccagcctg accaccagcg       84
0
     aggcggaggt ggcgaagatg gagagtgacg tggcagaggg gcaggtggtg gtcgcgcctt       90
0
     acttctccag catcgatacg cccgccagcc gggccttcgt ccaggcctgc catggtttct       96
0
     tcccggagaa cgcgaccatc accgcctggg ccgaggcggc ctactggcag accttgttgc      102
0
     tcggccgcgc cgcgcaggcc gcaggcaact ggcgggtgga agacgtgcag cggcacctgt      108
0
     acgacatcga catcgacgcg ccacaggggc cggtccgggt ggagcgccag aacaaccaca      114
0
     gccgcctgtc ttcgcgcatc gcggaaatcg atgcgcgcgg cgtgttccag gtccgctggc      120
0
     agtcgcccga accgattcgc cccgaccctt atgtcgtcgt gcataacctc gacgactggt      126
0
     ccgccagcat gggcggggga ccgctcccat gagcgccaac tcgctgctcg gcagcctgcg      132
0
     cgagttgcag gtgctggtcc tcaacccgcc gggggaggtc agcgacgccc tggtcttgca      138
0
     gctgatccgc atcggttgtt cggtgcgcca gtgctggccg ccgccggaag ccttcgacgt      144
0
     gccggtggac gtggtcttca ccagcatttt ccagaatggc caccacgacg agatcgctgc      150
0
     gctgctcgcc gccgggactc cgcgcactac cctggtggcg ctggtggagt acgaaagccc      156
0
     cgcggtgctc tcgcagatca tcgagctgga gtgccacggc gtgatcaccc agccgctcga      162
0
     tgcccaccgg gtgctgcctg tgctggtatc ggcgcggcgc atcagcgagg aaatggcgaa      168
0
     gctgaagcag aagaccgagc agctccagga ccgcatcgcc ggccaggccc ggatcaacca      174
0
     ggccaaggtg ttgctgatgc agcgccatgg ctgggacgag cgcgaggcgc accagcacct      180
0
     gtcgcgggaa gcgatgaagc ggcgcgagcc gatcctgaag atcgctcagg agttgctggg      186
0
     aaacgagccg tccgcctgag cgatccgggc cgaccagaac aataacaaga ggggtatcgt      192
0
     catcatgctg ggactggttc tgctgtacgt tggcgcggtg ctgtttctca atgccgtctg      198
0
     gttgctgggc aagatcagcg gtcgggaggt ggcggtgatc aacttcctgg tcggcgtgct      204
0
     gagcgcctgc gtcgcgttct acctgatctt ttccgcagca gccgggcagg gctcgctgaa      210
0
     ggccggagcg ctgaccctgc tattcgcttt tacctatctg tgggtggccg ccaaccagtt      216
0
     cctcgag                                                                216
7
//

Output file format

   The output is displayed on the screen (stdout) by default.

   The first non-blank line is the heading. This is followed by one line
   per sequence containing the following columns of data separated by one
   of more space or TAB characters:
     * The USA (Uniform Sequence Address) that EMBOSS can use to read in
       the sequence.
     * The name or ID of the sequence. If this is not known then '-' is
       output.
     * The accession number. If this is not known then '-' is output.
     * The type ('N' is nucleic, 'P' is protein).
     * The sequence length.
     * The description line of the sequence. This may be blank.

   If qualifiers to inhibit various columns of information are used, then
   the remaining columns of information are output in the same order as
   shown above, so if '-nolength' is used, the order of output is: usa,
   name, accession, type, description.

   When the -html qualifier is specified, then the output will be wrapped
   in HTML tags, ready for inclusion in a Web page. Note that tags such
   as <HTML> and <BODY> are not output by this program as the table of
   databases is expected to form only part of the contents of a web page
   - the rest of the web page must be supplier by the user.

   The lines of out information are guaranteed not to have trailing
   white-space at the end.

Data files

   None.

Notes

   This program was written to make it easier to get some specific bits
   of information on a sequence for use in small perl scripts. This Perl
   code fragment to get the type of a sequence is typical:
$type = `$PATH_TO_EMBOSS/infoseq $sequence -auto -only -type`;
chomp $type;

   You may find other uses for it, of course.

   By default, the output file starts each line with the USA of the
   sequence being described, so the output file is a list file that can
   be manually edited and read in by other EMBOSS programs using the
   list-file specification of '@filename'.

References

   None.

Warnings

   None.

Diagnostic Error Messages

   None.

Exit status

   It always exits with status 0

Known bugs

   None noted.

See also

   Program name                        Description
   infoalign    Information on a multiple sequence alignment
   seealso      Finds programs sharing group names
   showdb       Displays information on the currently available databases
   textsearch   Search sequence documentation. Slow, use SRS and Entrez!
   tfm          Displays a program's help documentation manual
   whichdb      Search all databases for an entry
   wossname     Finds programs by keywords in their one-line documentation

     * geecee - Calculates the fractional GC content of a nucleic acid
       sequence

Author(s)

   Gary Williams (gwilliam © rfcgr.mrc.ac.uk)
   MRC Rosalind Franklin Centre for Genomics Research Wellcome Trust
   Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SB, UK

History

Target users

   This program is intended to be used by everyone and everything, from
   naive users to embedded scripts.

Comments

   None
