                                   infoseq



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Function

   Display basic information about sequences

Description

   infoseq displays on screen basic information about one or more input
   sequences. This includes the Uniform Sequence Address (USA), name,
   accession number, type (nucleic or protein), length, percentage C+G and
   description. Any combination of these records is easily selected or
   unselected for display. The same information may be written to an
   output file which (optionally) may be formatted in an HTML table.

Usage

   Here is a sample session with infoseq

   Display information on a sequence:


% infoseq tembl:x13776
Display basic information about sequences

USA                      Database  Name           Accession      Type Length %GC
    Organism            Description
tembl-id:X13776          tembl          X13776         X13776         N    2167
  66.54  Pseudomonas aeruginosa Pseudomonas aeruginosa amiC and amiR gene for al
iphatic amidase regulation


   Go to the input files for this example

   Example 2

   Don't display the USA of a sequence:


% infoseq tembl:x13776 -nousa
Display basic information about sequences

Database  Name           Accession      Type Length %GC    Organism            D
escription
tembl          X13776         X13776         N    2167   66.54  Pseudomonas aeru
ginosa Pseudomonas aeruginosa amiC and amiR gene for aliphatic amidase regulatio
n


   Example 3

   Display only the name and length of a sequence:


% infoseq tembl:x13776 -only -name -length
Display basic information about sequences

Name           Length
X13776         2167


   Example 4

   Display only the description of a sequence:


% infoseq tembl:x13776 -only -desc
Display basic 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
Display basic information about sequences

Type
N


   Example 6

   Display information formatted with HTML:


% infoseq tembl:x13776 -html
Display basic information about sequences


 USA Database Name Accession Type Length %GC Organism Description

 tembl-id:X13776 tembl X13776 X13776 N 2167 66.54 Pseudomonas aeruginosa Pseudom
onas aeruginosa amiC and amiR gene for aliphatic amidase regulation




Command line arguments

Display basic information about sequences
Version: EMBOSS:6.6.0.0

   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)
   -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
   -seqversion         boolean    [N] Display 'version' column
   -type               boolean    [@(!$(only))] Display 'type' column
   -length             boolean    [@(!$(only))] Display 'length' column
   -pgc                boolean    [@(!$(only))] Display 'percent GC content'
                                  column
   -organism           boolean    [@(!$(only))] Display 'organism' 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
   -scircular1         boolean    Sequence is circular
   -squick1            boolean    Read id and sequence only
   -sformat1           string     Input sequence format
   -iquery1            string     Input query fields or ID list
   -ioffset1           integer    Input start position offset
   -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 first file to standard output
   -filter             boolean    Read first file from standard input, write
                                  first file to 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 and exit. 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
   -version            boolean    Report version number and exit


Input file format

   infoseq reads one or more nucleotide or protein sequences.

   The input is a standard EMBOSS sequence query (also known as a 'USA').

   Major sequence database sources defined as standard in EMBOSS
   installations include srs:embl, srs:uniprot and ensembl

   Data can also be read from sequence output in any supported format
   written by an EMBOSS or third-party application.

   The input format can be specified by using the command-line qualifier
   -sformat xxx, where 'xxx' is replaced by the name of the required
   format. The available format names are: gff (gff3), gff2, embl (em),
   genbank (gb, refseq), ddbj, refseqp, pir (nbrf), swissprot (swiss, sw),
   dasgff and debug.

   See: http://emboss.sf.net/docs/themes/SequenceFormats.html for further
   information on sequence formats.

  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 INSDC.
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 (amiR) of
RT   Pseudomonas 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 sequence 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 INSDC.
RL   Rice P.M., EMBL, Postfach 10-2209, Meyerhofstrasse 1, 6900 Heidelberg, FRG.
XX
DR   GOA; Q51417.
DR   InterPro; IPR003211; AmiSUreI_transpt.
DR   UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot; Q51417; AMIS_PSEAE.


  [Part of this file has been deleted for brevity]

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 causes
FT                   constitutive expression of amiE"
FT   misc_difference 1281
FT                   /replace="g"
FT                   /note="conflict"
FT                   /citation=[3]
XX
SQ   Sequence 2167 BP; 363 A; 712 C; 730 G; 362 T; 0 other;
     ggtaccgctg gccgagcatc tgctcgatca ccaccagccg ggcgacggga actgcacgat        60
     ctacctggcg agcctggagc acgagcgggt tcgcttcgta cggcgctgag cgacagtcac       120
     aggagaggaa acggatggga tcgcaccagg agcggccgct gatcggcctg ctgttctccg       180
     aaaccggcgt caccgccgat atcgagcgct cgcacgcgta tggcgcattg ctcgcggtcg       240
     agcaactgaa ccgcgagggc ggcgtcggcg gtcgcccgat cgaaacgctg tcccaggacc       300
     ccggcggcga cccggaccgc tatcggctgt gcgccgagga cttcattcgc aaccgggggg       360
     tacggttcct cgtgggctgc tacatgtcgc acacgcgcaa ggcggtgatg ccggtggtcg       420
     agcgcgccga cgcgctgctc tgctacccga ccccctacga gggcttcgag tattcgccga       480
     acatcgtcta cggcggtccg gcgccgaacc agaacagtgc gccgctggcg gcgtacctga       540
     ttcgccacta cggcgagcgg gtggtgttca tcggctcgga ctacatctat ccgcgggaaa       600
     gcaaccatgt gatgcgccac ctgtatcgcc agcacggcgg cacggtgctc gaggaaatct       660
     acattccgct gtatccctcc gacgacgact tgcagcgcgc cgtcgagcgc atctaccagg       720
     cgcgcgccga cgtggtcttc tccaccgtgg tgggcaccgg caccgccgag ctgtatcgcg       780
     ccatcgcccg tcgctacggc gacggcaggc ggccgccgat cgccagcctg accaccagcg       840
     aggcggaggt ggcgaagatg gagagtgacg tggcagaggg gcaggtggtg gtcgcgcctt       900
     acttctccag catcgatacg cccgccagcc gggccttcgt ccaggcctgc catggtttct       960
     tcccggagaa cgcgaccatc accgcctggg ccgaggcggc ctactggcag accttgttgc      1020
     tcggccgcgc cgcgcaggcc gcaggcaact ggcgggtgga agacgtgcag cggcacctgt      1080
     acgacatcga catcgacgcg ccacaggggc cggtccgggt ggagcgccag aacaaccaca      1140
     gccgcctgtc ttcgcgcatc gcggaaatcg atgcgcgcgg cgtgttccag gtccgctggc      1200
     agtcgcccga accgattcgc cccgaccctt atgtcgtcgt gcataacctc gacgactggt      1260
     ccgccagcat gggcggggga ccgctcccat gagcgccaac tcgctgctcg gcagcctgcg      1320
     cgagttgcag gtgctggtcc tcaacccgcc gggggaggtc agcgacgccc tggtcttgca      1380
     gctgatccgc atcggttgtt cggtgcgcca gtgctggccg ccgccggaag ccttcgacgt      1440
     gccggtggac gtggtcttca ccagcatttt ccagaatggc caccacgacg agatcgctgc      1500
     gctgctcgcc gccgggactc cgcgcactac cctggtggcg ctggtggagt acgaaagccc      1560
     cgcggtgctc tcgcagatca tcgagctgga gtgccacggc gtgatcaccc agccgctcga      1620
     tgcccaccgg gtgctgcctg tgctggtatc ggcgcggcgc atcagcgagg aaatggcgaa      1680
     gctgaagcag aagaccgagc agctccagga ccgcatcgcc ggccaggccc ggatcaacca      1740
     ggccaaggtg ttgctgatgc agcgccatgg ctgggacgag cgcgaggcgc accagcacct      1800
     gtcgcgggaa gcgatgaagc ggcgcgagcc gatcctgaag atcgctcagg agttgctggg      1860
     aaacgagccg tccgcctgag cgatccgggc cgaccagaac aataacaaga ggggtatcgt      1920
     catcatgctg ggactggttc tgctgtacgt tggcgcggtg ctgtttctca atgccgtctg      1980
     gttgctgggc aagatcagcg gtcgggaggt ggcggtgatc aacttcctgg tcggcgtgct      2040
     gagcgcctgc gtcgcgttct acctgatctt ttccgcagca gccgggcagg gctcgctgaa      2100
     ggccggagcg ctgaccctgc tattcgcttt tacctatctg tgggtggccg ccaaccagtt      2160
     cctcgag                                                                2167
//

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

   There are many qualifiers to control exactly what information on the
   sequence is output and how it is formatted. If you only want a few
   fields in the output file, the command line may be shortended by
   preceding the appropriate qualifier with -only. For example, instead of
   specifying -nohead -noname -noacc -notype -nopgc -nodesc to get only
   the length output, you can specify -only -length.

   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.

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
                    abiview      Display the trace in an ABI sequencer file
                    coderet      Extract CDS, mRNA and translations from feature tables
                    entret       Retrieve sequence entries from flatfile databases and files
   extractalign     Extract regions from a sequence alignment
                    infoalign    Display basic information about a multiple sequence alignment
                    refseqget    Get reference sequence
                    seqxref      Retrieve all database cross-references for a sequence entry
                    seqxrefget   Retrieve all cross-referenced data for a sequence entry
                    showalign    Display a multiple sequence alignment in pretty format
   variationget     Get sequence variations
                    whichdb      Search all sequence databases for an entry and retrieve it

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

Author(s)

   Gary             Williams formerly at:
   MRC              Rosalind Franklin Centre for Genomics Research Wellcome Trust
   Genome           Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SB, UK

                    Please report all bugs to the EMBOSS bug team
                    (emboss-bug (c) emboss.open-bio.org) not to the original author.

History

Target users

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

Comments

                    None
