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wossname search for the specified keywords (or parts thereof) in the application short description (as displayed by a program when it starts), functional group name and keywords. The group name, application name and short description of any matching applications is output (screen by default). If no search words are specified, then details of all the EMBOSS programs are output. There are various options for controlling how the search is performed and what is given in the output file. Optionally, the output will be wrapped in HTML tags ready for inclusion in a Web page.
Search for programs with 'restrict' in their description:
% wossname restrict Finds programs by keywords in their short description SEARCH FOR 'RESTRICT' erestml Restriction site Maximum Likelihood method frestboot Bootstrapped restriction sites algorithm frestdist Distance matrix from restriction sites or fragments frestml Restriction site maximum Likelihood method rebaseextract Process the REBASE database for use by restriction enzyme applications recoder Find restriction sites to remove (mutate) with no translation change redata Retrieve information from REBASE restriction enzyme database remap Display restriction enzyme binding sites in a nucleotide sequence restover Find restriction enzymes producing a specific overhang restrict Report restriction enzyme cleavage sites in a nucleotide sequence showseq Displays sequences with features in pretty format silent Find restriction sites to insert (mutate) with no translation change |
Example 2
Display a listing of programs in their groups:
% wossname -search '' Finds programs by keywords in their short description ACD acdc Test an application ACD file acdpretty Correctly reformat an application ACD file acdtable Generate an HTML table of parameters from an application ACD file acdtrace Trace processing of an application ACD file (for testing) acdvalid Validate an application ACD file ALIGNMENT CONSENSUS cons Create a consensus sequence from a multiple alignment consambig Create an ambiguous consensus sequence from a multiple alignment megamerger Merge two large overlapping DNA sequences merger Merge two overlapping sequences ALIGNMENT DIFFERENCES diffseq Compare and report features of two similar sequences ALIGNMENT DOT PLOTS dotmatcher Draw a threshold dotplot of two sequences dotpath Draw a non-overlapping wordmatch dotplot of two sequences dottup Displays a wordmatch dotplot of two sequences polydot Draw dotplots for all-against-all comparison of a sequence set ALIGNMENT GLOBAL esim4 Align an mRNA to a genomic DNA sequence est2genome Align EST sequences to genomic DNA sequence needle Needleman-Wunsch global alignment of two sequences stretcher Needleman-Wunsch rapid global alignment of two sequences ALIGNMENT LOCAL matcher Waterman-Eggert local alignment of two sequences seqmatchall All-against-all word comparison of a sequence set supermatcher Calculate approximate local pair-wise alignments of larger sequences water Smith-Waterman local alignment of sequences wordfinder Match large sequences against one or more other sequences wordmatch Finds regions of identity (exact matches) of two sequences ALIGNMENT MULTIPLE edialign Local multiple alignment of sequences emma Multiple sequence alignment (ClustalW wrapper) infoalign Display basic information about a multiple sequence alignment mse Multiple Sequence Editor plotcon Plot conservation of a sequence alignment prettyplot Draw a sequence alignment with pretty formatting showalign Display a multiple sequence alignment in pretty format tranalign Generate an aligment of nucleic coding regions from aligned proteins ASSEMBLY FRAGMENT ASSEMBLY emira MIRA fragment assembly program emiraest MIRAest fragment assembly program DISPLAY abiview Display the trace in an ABI sequencer file cirdna Draws circular maps of DNA constructs lindna Draws linear maps of DNA constructs pepnet Draw a helical net for a protein sequence pepwheel Draw a helical wheel diagram for a protein sequence prettyplot Draw a sequence alignment with pretty formatting prettyseq Write a nucleotide sequence and its translation to file remap Display restriction enzyme binding sites in a nucleotide sequence seealso Finds programs with similar function to a specified program showalign Display a multiple sequence alignment in pretty format showdb Displays information on configured databases showfeat Display features of a sequence in pretty format showseq Displays sequences with features in pretty format sixpack Display a DNA sequence with 6-frame translation and ORFs textsearch Search the textual description of sequence(s) EDIT aligncopy Reads and writes alignments aligncopypair Reads and writes pairs from alignments biosed Replace or delete sequence sections codcopy Copy and reformat a codon usage table cutseq Removes a section from a sequence degapseq Removes non-alphabetic (e.g. gap) characters from sequences descseq Alter the name or description of a sequence entret Retrieves sequence entries from flatfile databases and files extractalign Extract regions from a sequence alignment extractfeat Extract features from sequence(s) extractseq Extract regions from a sequence featcopy Reads and writes a feature table featreport Reads and writes a feature table listor Write a list file of the logical OR of two sets of sequences makenucseq Create random nucleotide sequences makeprotseq Create random protein sequences maskambignuc Masks all ambiguity characters in nucleotide sequences with N maskambigprot Masks all ambiguity characters in protein sequences with X maskfeat Write a sequence with masked features maskseq Write a sequence with masked regions newseq Create a sequence file from a typed-in sequence nohtml Remove mark-up (e.g. HTML tags) from an ASCII text file noreturn Remove carriage return from ASCII files nospace Remove all whitespace from an ASCII text file notab Replace tabs with spaces in an ASCII text file notseq Write to file a subset of an input stream of sequences nthseq Write to file a single sequence from an input stream of sequences pasteseq Insert one sequence into another revseq Reverse and complement a nucleotide sequence seqret Reads and writes (returns) sequences seqretsplit Reads sequences and writes them to individual files sizeseq Sort sequences by size skipredundant Remove redundant sequences from an input set skipseq Reads and writes (returns) sequences, skipping first few splitter Split sequence(s) into smaller sequences trimest Remove poly-A tails from nucleotide sequences trimseq Remove unwanted characters from start and end of sequence(s) trimspace Remove extra whitespace from an ASCII text file union Concatenate multiple sequences into a single sequence vectorstrip Removes vectors from the ends of nucleotide sequence(s) yank Add a sequence reference (a full USA) to a list file ENZYME KINETICS findkm Calculate and plot enzyme reaction data FEATURE TABLES coderet Extract CDS, mRNA and translations from feature tables extractfeat Extract features from sequence(s) maskfeat Write a sequence with masked features showfeat Display features of a sequence in pretty format twofeat Finds neighbouring pairs of features in sequence(s) HMM ehmmalign Align sequences to an HMM profile ehmmbuild Build a profile HMM from an alignment ehmmcalibrate Calibrate HMM search statistics ehmmconvert Convert between profile HMM file formats ehmmemit Generate sequences from a profile HMM ehmmfetch Retrieve an HMM from an HMM database ehmmindex Create a binary SSI index for an HMM database ehmmpfam Search one or more sequences against an HMM database ehmmsearch Search a sequence database with a profile HMM oalistat Statistics for multiple alignment files ohmmalign Align sequences with an HMM ohmmbuild Build HMM ohmmcalibrate Calibrate a hidden Markov model ohmmconvert Convert between HMM formats ohmmemit Extract HMM sequences ohmmfetch Extract HMM from a database ohmmindex Index an HMM database ohmmpfam Align single sequence with an HMM ohmmsearch Search sequence database with an HMM INFORMATION infoalign Display basic information about a multiple sequence alignment infobase Return information on a given nucleotide base inforesidue Return information on a given amino acid residue infoseq Display basic information about sequences seealso Finds programs with similar function to a specified program showdb Displays information on configured databases textsearch Search the textual description of sequence(s) tfm Displays full documentation for an application whichdb Search all sequence databases for an entry and retrieve it wossname Finds programs by keywords in their short description MENUS emnu Simple menu of EMBOSS applications NUCLEIC 2D STRUCTURE einverted Finds inverted repeats in nucleotide sequences vrnaalifold RNA alignment folding vrnaalifoldpf RNA alignment folding with partition vrnacofold RNA cofolding vrnacofoldconc RNA cofolding with concentrations vrnacofoldpf RNA cofolding with partitioning vrnadistance RNA distances vrnaduplex RNA duplex calculation vrnaeval RNA eval vrnaevalpair RNA eval with cofold vrnafold Calculate secondary structures of RNAs vrnafoldpf Secondary structures of RNAs with partition vrnaheat RNA melting vrnainverse RNA sequences matching a structure vrnalfold Calculate locally stable secondary structures of RNAs vrnaplot Plot vrnafold output vrnasubopt Calculate RNA suboptimals NUCLEIC CODON USAGE cai Calculate codon adaptation index chips Calculates Nc codon usage statistic codcmp Codon usage table comparison cusp Create a codon usage table from nucleotide sequence(s) syco Draw synonymous codon usage statictic plot for a nucleotide sequence NUCLEIC COMPOSITION banana Plot bending and curvature data for B-DNA btwisted Calculate the twisting in a B-DNA sequence chaos Draw a chaos game representation plot for a nucleotide sequence compseq Calculate the composition of unique words in sequences dan Calculates nucleic acid melting temperature density Draw a nucleic acid density plot freak Generate residue/base frequency table or plot isochore Plots isochores in DNA sequences sirna Finds siRNA duplexes in mRNA wordcount Count and extract unique words in DNA sequence(s) NUCLEIC CPG ISLANDS cpgplot Identify and plot CpG islands in nucleotide sequence(s) cpgreport Identify and report CpG-rich regions in nucleotide sequence(s) geecee Calculate fractional GC content of nucleic acid sequences newcpgreport Identify CpG islands in nucleotide sequence(s) newcpgseek Identify and report CpG-rich regions in nucleotide sequence(s) NUCLEIC GENE FINDING getorf Finds and extracts open reading frames (ORFs) marscan Finds matrix/scaffold recognition (MRS) signatures in DNA sequences plotorf Plot potential open reading frames in a nucleotide sequence showorf Display a nucleotide sequence and translation in pretty format sixpack Display a DNA sequence with 6-frame translation and ORFs syco Draw synonymous codon usage statictic plot for a nucleotide sequence tcode Identify protein-coding regions using Fickett TESTCODE statistic wobble Plot third base position variability in a nucleotide sequence NUCLEIC MOTIFS dreg Regular expression search of nucleotide sequence(s) fuzznuc Search for patterns in nucleotide sequences fuzztran Search for patterns in protein sequences (translated) marscan Finds matrix/scaffold recognition (MRS) signatures in DNA sequences NUCLEIC MUTATION msbar Mutate a sequence shuffleseq Shuffles a set of sequences maintaining composition NUCLEIC PRIMERS eprimer3 Picks PCR primers and hybridization oligos primersearch Search DNA sequences for matches with primer pairs stssearch Search a DNA database for matches with a set of STS primers NUCLEIC PROFILES profit Scan one or more sequences with a simple frequency matrix prophecy Create frequency matrix or profile from a multiple alignment prophet Scan one or more sequences with a Gribskov or Henikoff profile NUCLEIC REPEATS einverted Finds inverted repeats in nucleotide sequences equicktandem Finds tandem repeats in nucleotide sequences etandem Finds tandem repeats in a nucleotide sequence palindrome Finds inverted repeats in nucleotide sequence(s) NUCLEIC RESTRICTION recoder Find restriction sites to remove (mutate) with no translation change redata Retrieve information from REBASE restriction enzyme database remap Display restriction enzyme binding sites in a nucleotide sequence restover Find restriction enzymes producing a specific overhang restrict Report restriction enzyme cleavage sites in a nucleotide sequence showseq Displays sequences with features in pretty format silent Find restriction sites to insert (mutate) with no translation change NUCLEIC RNA FOLDING vrnaalifold RNA alignment folding vrnaalifoldpf RNA alignment folding with partition vrnacofold RNA cofolding vrnacofoldconc RNA cofolding with concentrations vrnacofoldpf RNA cofolding with partitioning vrnadistance RNA distances vrnaduplex RNA duplex calculation vrnaeval RNA eval vrnaevalpair RNA eval with cofold vrnafold Calculate secondary structures of RNAs vrnafoldpf Secondary structures of RNAs with partition vrnaheat RNA melting vrnainverse RNA sequences matching a structure vrnalfold Calculate locally stable secondary structures of RNAs vrnaplot Plot vrnafold output vrnasubopt Calculate RNA suboptimals NUCLEIC TRANSCRIPTION jaspscan Scans DNA sequences for transcription factors tfscan Identify transcription factor binding sites in DNA sequences NUCLEIC TRANSLATION backtranambig Back-translate a protein sequence to ambiguous nucleotide sequence backtranseq Back-translate a protein sequence to a nucleotide sequence coderet Extract CDS, mRNA and translations from feature tables plotorf Plot potential open reading frames in a nucleotide sequence prettyseq Write a nucleotide sequence and its translation to file remap Display restriction enzyme binding sites in a nucleotide sequence showorf Display a nucleotide sequence and translation in pretty format showseq Displays sequences with features in pretty format sixpack Display a DNA sequence with 6-frame translation and ORFs transeq Translate nucleic acid sequences PHYLOGENY CONSENSUS econsense Majority-rule and strict consensus tree fconsense Majority-rule and strict consensus tree ftreedist Distances between trees ftreedistpair Distances between two sets of trees PHYLOGENY CONTINUOUS CHARACTERS econtml Continuous character Maximum Likelihood method econtrast Continuous character Contrasts fcontrast Continuous character Contrasts PHYLOGENY DISCRETE CHARACTERS eclique Largest clique program edollop Dollo and polymorphism parsimony algorithm edolpenny Penny algorithm Dollo or polymorphism efactor Multistate to binary recoding program emix Mixed parsimony algorithm epenny Penny algorithm, branch-and-bound fclique Largest clique program fdollop Dollo and polymorphism parsimony algorithm fdolpenny Penny algorithm Dollo or polymorphism ffactor Multistate to binary recoding program fmix Mixed parsimony algorithm fmove Interactive mixed method parsimony fpars Discrete character parsimony fpenny Penny algorithm, branch-and-bound PHYLOGENY DISTANCE MATRIX efitch Fitch-Margoliash and Least-Squares Distance Methods ekitsch Fitch-Margoliash method with contemporary tips eneighbor Phylogenies from distance matrix by N-J or UPGMA method ffitch Fitch-Margoliash and Least-Squares Distance Methods fkitsch Fitch-Margoliash method with contemporary tips fneighbor Phylogenies from distance matrix by N-J or UPGMA method PHYLOGENY GENE FREQUENCIES egendist Genetic Distance Matrix program fcontml Gene frequency and continuous character Maximum Likelihood fgendist Compute genetic distances from gene frequencies PHYLOGENY MOLECULAR SEQUENCE distmat Create a distance matrix from a multiple sequence alignment ednacomp DNA compatibility algorithm ednadist Nucleic acid sequence Distance Matrix program ednainvar Nucleic acid sequence Invariants method ednaml Phylogenies from nucleic acid Maximum Likelihood ednamlk Phylogenies from nucleic acid Maximum Likelihood with clock ednapars DNA parsimony algorithm ednapenny Penny algorithm for DNA eprotdist Protein distance algorithm eprotpars Protein parsimony algorithm erestml Restriction site Maximum Likelihood method eseqboot Bootstrapped sequences algorithm fdiscboot Bootstrapped discrete sites algorithm fdnacomp DNA compatibility algorithm fdnadist Nucleic acid sequence Distance Matrix program fdnainvar Nucleic acid sequence Invariants method fdnaml Estimates nucleotide phylogeny by maximum likelihood fdnamlk Estimates nucleotide phylogeny by maximum likelihood fdnamove Interactive DNA parsimony fdnapars DNA parsimony algorithm fdnapenny Penny algorithm for DNA fdolmove Interactive Dollo or Polymorphism Parsimony ffreqboot Bootstrapped genetic frequencies algorithm fproml Protein phylogeny by maximum likelihood fpromlk Protein phylogeny by maximum likelihood fprotdist Protein distance algorithm fprotpars Protein parsimony algorithm frestboot Bootstrapped restriction sites algorithm frestdist Distance matrix from restriction sites or fragments frestml Restriction site maximum Likelihood method fseqboot Bootstrapped sequences algorithm fseqbootall Bootstrapped sequences algorithm PHYLOGENY TREE DRAWING fdrawgram Plots a cladogram- or phenogram-like rooted tree diagram fdrawtree Plots an unrooted tree diagram fretree Interactive tree rearrangement PROTEIN 2D STRUCTURE garnier Predicts protein secondary structure using GOR method helixturnhelix Identify nucleic acid-binding motifs in protein sequences hmoment Calculate and plot hydrophobic moment for protein sequence(s) pepcoil Predicts coiled coil regions in protein sequences pepnet Draw a helical net for a protein sequence pepwheel Draw a helical wheel diagram for a protein sequence tmap Predict and plot transmembrane segments in protein sequences topo Draws an image of a transmembrane protein PROTEIN 3D STRUCTURE contacts Generate intra-chain CON files from CCF files domainalign Generate alignments (DAF file) for nodes in a DCF file domainrep Reorder DCF file to identify representative structures domainreso Remove low resolution domains from a DCF file interface Generate inter-chain CON files from CCF files libgen Generate discriminating elements from alignments matgen3d Generate a 3D-1D scoring matrix from CCF files psiphi Calculates phi and psi torsion angles from protein coordinates rocon Generates a hits file from comparing two DHF files rocplot Performs ROC analysis on hits files seqalign Extend alignments (DAF file) with sequences (DHF file) seqfraggle Removes fragment sequences from DHF files seqsearch Generate PSI-BLAST hits (DHF file) from a DAF file seqsort Remove ambiguous classified sequences from DHF files seqwords Generates DHF files from keyword search of UniProt siggen Generates a sparse protein signature from an alignment siggenlig Generate ligand-binding signatures from a CON file sigscan Generate hits (DHF file) from a signature search sigscanlig Search ligand-signature library & write hits (LHF file) PROTEIN COMPOSITION backtranambig Back-translate a protein sequence to ambiguous nucleotide sequence backtranseq Back-translate a protein sequence to a nucleotide sequence charge Draw a protein charge plot checktrans Reports STOP codons and ORF statistics of a protein compseq Calculate the composition of unique words in sequences emowse Search protein sequences by digest fragment molecular weight freak Generate residue/base frequency table or plot iep Calculate the isoelectric point of proteins mwcontam Find weights common to multiple molecular weights files mwfilter Filter noisy data from molecular weights file octanol Draw a White-Wimley protein hydropathy plot pepinfo Plot amino acid properties of a protein sequence in parallel pepstats Calculates statistics of protein properties pepwindow Draw a Kyte-Doolittle hydropathy plot for a protein sequence pepwindowall Draw Kyte-Doolittle hydropathy plot for a protein alignment wordcount Count and extract unique words in DNA sequence(s) PROTEIN MOTIFS antigenic Finds antigenic sites in proteins digest Reports on protein proteolytic enzyme or reagent cleavage sites echlorop Reports presence of chloroplast transit peptides eiprscan Motif detection elipop Prediction of lipoproteins emast Motif detection ememe Motif detection enetnglyc Reports N-glycosylation sites in human proteins enetoglyc Reports mucin type GalNAc O-glycosylation sites in mammalian proteins enetphos Reports ser, thr and tyr phosphorylation sites in eukaryotic proteins epestfind Finds PEST motifs as potential proteolytic cleavage sites eprop Reports propeptide cleavage sites in proteins esignalp Reports protein signal cleavage sites etmhmm Reports transmembrane helices eyinoyang Reports O-(beta)-GlcNAc attachment sites fuzzpro Search for patterns in protein sequences fuzztran Search for patterns in protein sequences (translated) helixturnhelix Identify nucleic acid-binding motifs in protein sequences oddcomp Identify proteins with specified sequence word composition omeme Motif detection patmatdb Searches protein sequences with a sequence motif patmatmotifs Scan a protein sequence with motifs from the PROSITE database pepcoil Predicts coiled coil regions in protein sequences preg Regular expression search of protein sequence(s) pscan Scans protein sequence(s) with fingerprints from the PRINTS database sigcleave Reports on signal cleavage sites in a protein sequence PROTEIN MUTATION msbar Mutate a sequence shuffleseq Shuffles a set of sequences maintaining composition PROTEIN PROFILES profit Scan one or more sequences with a simple frequency matrix prophecy Create frequency matrix or profile from a multiple alignment prophet Scan one or more sequences with a Gribskov or Henikoff profile TEST crystalball Answers every drug discovery question about a sequence UTILS DATABASE CREATION aaindexextract Extract amino acid property data from AAINDEX allversusall Sequence similarity data from all-versus-all comparison cathparse Generates DCF file from raw CATH files cutgextract Extract codon usage tables from from CUTG database domainer Generates domain CCF files from protein CCF files domainnr Removes redundant domains from a DCF file domainseqs Adds sequence records to a DCF file domainsse Add secondary structure records to a DCF file hetparse Converts heterogen group dictionary to EMBL-like format jaspextract Extract data from JASPAR pdbparse Parses PDB files and writes protein CCF files pdbplus Add accessibility & secondary structure to a CCF file pdbtosp Convert swissprot:PDB codes file to EMBL-like format printsextract Extract data from PRINTS database for use by pscan prosextract Processes the PROSITE motif database for use by patmatmotifs rebaseextract Process the REBASE database for use by restriction enzyme applications scopparse Generate DCF file from raw SCOP files seqnr Removes redundancy from DHF files sites Generate residue-ligand CON files from CCF files ssematch Search a DCF file for secondary structure matches tfextract Process TRANSFAC transcription factor database for use by tfscan UTILS DATABASE INDEXING dbiblast Index a BLAST database dbifasta Index a fasta file database dbiflat Index a flat file database dbigcg Index a GCG formatted database dbxfasta Index a fasta file database using b+tree indices dbxflat Index a flat file database using b+tree indices dbxgcg Index a GCG formatted database using b+tree indices UTILS MISC embossdata Find and retrieve EMBOSS data files embossversion Writes the current EMBOSS version number to a file |
Example 3
Display an alphabetic listing of all programs:
% wossname -search '' -alphabetic Finds programs by keywords in their short description ALPHABETIC LIST OF PROGRAMS aaindexextract Extract amino acid property data from AAINDEX abiview Display the trace in an ABI sequencer file acdc Test an application ACD file acdpretty Correctly reformat an application ACD file acdtable Generate an HTML table of parameters from an application ACD file acdtrace Trace processing of an application ACD file (for testing) acdvalid Validate an application ACD file aligncopy Reads and writes alignments aligncopypair Reads and writes pairs from alignments allversusall Sequence similarity data from all-versus-all comparison antigenic Finds antigenic sites in proteins backtranambig Back-translate a protein sequence to ambiguous nucleotide sequence backtranseq Back-translate a protein sequence to a nucleotide sequence banana Plot bending and curvature data for B-DNA biosed Replace or delete sequence sections btwisted Calculate the twisting in a B-DNA sequence cai Calculate codon adaptation index cathparse Generates DCF file from raw CATH files chaos Draw a chaos game representation plot for a nucleotide sequence charge Draw a protein charge plot checktrans Reports STOP codons and ORF statistics of a protein chips Calculates Nc codon usage statistic cirdna Draws circular maps of DNA constructs codcmp Codon usage table comparison codcopy Copy and reformat a codon usage table coderet Extract CDS, mRNA and translations from feature tables compseq Calculate the composition of unique words in sequences cons Create a consensus sequence from a multiple alignment consambig Create an ambiguous consensus sequence from a multiple alignment contacts Generate intra-chain CON files from CCF files cpgplot Identify and plot CpG islands in nucleotide sequence(s) cpgreport Identify and report CpG-rich regions in nucleotide sequence(s) crystalball Answers every drug discovery question about a sequence cusp Create a codon usage table from nucleotide sequence(s) cutgextract Extract codon usage tables from from CUTG database cutseq Removes a section from a sequence dan Calculates nucleic acid melting temperature dbiblast Index a BLAST database dbifasta Index a fasta file database dbiflat Index a flat file database dbigcg Index a GCG formatted database dbxfasta Index a fasta file database using b+tree indices dbxflat Index a flat file database using b+tree indices dbxgcg Index a GCG formatted database using b+tree indices degapseq Removes non-alphabetic (e.g. gap) characters from sequences density Draw a nucleic acid density plot descseq Alter the name or description of a sequence diffseq Compare and report features of two similar sequences digest Reports on protein proteolytic enzyme or reagent cleavage sites distmat Create a distance matrix from a multiple sequence alignment domainalign Generate alignments (DAF file) for nodes in a DCF file domainer Generates domain CCF files from protein CCF files domainnr Removes redundant domains from a DCF file domainrep Reorder DCF file to identify representative structures domainreso Remove low resolution domains from a DCF file domainseqs Adds sequence records to a DCF file domainsse Add secondary structure records to a DCF file dotmatcher Draw a threshold dotplot of two sequences dotpath Draw a non-overlapping wordmatch dotplot of two sequences dottup Displays a wordmatch dotplot of two sequences dreg Regular expression search of nucleotide sequence(s) echlorop Reports presence of chloroplast transit peptides eclique Largest clique program econsense Majority-rule and strict consensus tree econtml Continuous character Maximum Likelihood method econtrast Continuous character Contrasts edialign Local multiple alignment of sequences ednacomp DNA compatibility algorithm ednadist Nucleic acid sequence Distance Matrix program ednainvar Nucleic acid sequence Invariants method ednaml Phylogenies from nucleic acid Maximum Likelihood ednamlk Phylogenies from nucleic acid Maximum Likelihood with clock ednapars DNA parsimony algorithm ednapenny Penny algorithm for DNA edollop Dollo and polymorphism parsimony algorithm edolpenny Penny algorithm Dollo or polymorphism efactor Multistate to binary recoding program efitch Fitch-Margoliash and Least-Squares Distance Methods egendist Genetic Distance Matrix program ehmmalign Align sequences to an HMM profile ehmmbuild Build a profile HMM from an alignment ehmmcalibrate Calibrate HMM search statistics ehmmconvert Convert between profile HMM file formats ehmmemit Generate sequences from a profile HMM ehmmfetch Retrieve an HMM from an HMM database ehmmindex Create a binary SSI index for an HMM database ehmmpfam Search one or more sequences against an HMM database ehmmsearch Search a sequence database with a profile HMM einverted Finds inverted repeats in nucleotide sequences eiprscan Motif detection ekitsch Fitch-Margoliash method with contemporary tips elipop Prediction of lipoproteins emast Motif detection embossdata Find and retrieve EMBOSS data files embossversion Writes the current EMBOSS version number to a file ememe Motif detection emira MIRA fragment assembly program emiraest MIRAest fragment assembly program emix Mixed parsimony algorithm emma Multiple sequence alignment (ClustalW wrapper) emnu Simple menu of EMBOSS applications emowse Search protein sequences by digest fragment molecular weight eneighbor Phylogenies from distance matrix by N-J or UPGMA method enetnglyc Reports N-glycosylation sites in human proteins enetoglyc Reports mucin type GalNAc O-glycosylation sites in mammalian proteins enetphos Reports ser, thr and tyr phosphorylation sites in eukaryotic proteins entret Retrieves sequence entries from flatfile databases and files epenny Penny algorithm, branch-and-bound epestfind Finds PEST motifs as potential proteolytic cleavage sites eprimer3 Picks PCR primers and hybridization oligos eprop Reports propeptide cleavage sites in proteins eprotdist Protein distance algorithm eprotpars Protein parsimony algorithm equicktandem Finds tandem repeats in nucleotide sequences erestml Restriction site Maximum Likelihood method eseqboot Bootstrapped sequences algorithm esignalp Reports protein signal cleavage sites esim4 Align an mRNA to a genomic DNA sequence est2genome Align EST sequences to genomic DNA sequence etandem Finds tandem repeats in a nucleotide sequence etmhmm Reports transmembrane helices extractalign Extract regions from a sequence alignment extractfeat Extract features from sequence(s) extractseq Extract regions from a sequence eyinoyang Reports O-(beta)-GlcNAc attachment sites fclique Largest clique program fconsense Majority-rule and strict consensus tree fcontml Gene frequency and continuous character Maximum Likelihood fcontrast Continuous character Contrasts fdiscboot Bootstrapped discrete sites algorithm fdnacomp DNA compatibility algorithm fdnadist Nucleic acid sequence Distance Matrix program fdnainvar Nucleic acid sequence Invariants method fdnaml Estimates nucleotide phylogeny by maximum likelihood fdnamlk Estimates nucleotide phylogeny by maximum likelihood fdnamove Interactive DNA parsimony fdnapars DNA parsimony algorithm fdnapenny Penny algorithm for DNA fdollop Dollo and polymorphism parsimony algorithm fdolmove Interactive Dollo or Polymorphism Parsimony fdolpenny Penny algorithm Dollo or polymorphism fdrawgram Plots a cladogram- or phenogram-like rooted tree diagram fdrawtree Plots an unrooted tree diagram featcopy Reads and writes a feature table featreport Reads and writes a feature table ffactor Multistate to binary recoding program ffitch Fitch-Margoliash and Least-Squares Distance Methods ffreqboot Bootstrapped genetic frequencies algorithm fgendist Compute genetic distances from gene frequencies findkm Calculate and plot enzyme reaction data fkitsch Fitch-Margoliash method with contemporary tips fmix Mixed parsimony algorithm fmove Interactive mixed method parsimony fneighbor Phylogenies from distance matrix by N-J or UPGMA method fpars Discrete character parsimony fpenny Penny algorithm, branch-and-bound fproml Protein phylogeny by maximum likelihood fpromlk Protein phylogeny by maximum likelihood fprotdist Protein distance algorithm fprotpars Protein parsimony algorithm freak Generate residue/base frequency table or plot frestboot Bootstrapped restriction sites algorithm frestdist Distance matrix from restriction sites or fragments frestml Restriction site maximum Likelihood method fretree Interactive tree rearrangement fseqboot Bootstrapped sequences algorithm fseqbootall Bootstrapped sequences algorithm ftreedist Distances between trees ftreedistpair Distances between two sets of trees fuzznuc Search for patterns in nucleotide sequences fuzzpro Search for patterns in protein sequences fuzztran Search for patterns in protein sequences (translated) garnier Predicts protein secondary structure using GOR method geecee Calculate fractional GC content of nucleic acid sequences getorf Finds and extracts open reading frames (ORFs) helixturnhelix Identify nucleic acid-binding motifs in protein sequences hetparse Converts heterogen group dictionary to EMBL-like format hmoment Calculate and plot hydrophobic moment for protein sequence(s) iep Calculate the isoelectric point of proteins infoalign Display basic information about a multiple sequence alignment infobase Return information on a given nucleotide base inforesidue Return information on a given amino acid residue infoseq Display basic information about sequences interface Generate inter-chain CON files from CCF files isochore Plots isochores in DNA sequences jaspextract Extract data from JASPAR jaspscan Scans DNA sequences for transcription factors libgen Generate discriminating elements from alignments lindna Draws linear maps of DNA constructs listor Write a list file of the logical OR of two sets of sequences makenucseq Create random nucleotide sequences makeprotseq Create random protein sequences marscan Finds matrix/scaffold recognition (MRS) signatures in DNA sequences maskambignuc Masks all ambiguity characters in nucleotide sequences with N maskambigprot Masks all ambiguity characters in protein sequences with X maskfeat Write a sequence with masked features maskseq Write a sequence with masked regions matcher Waterman-Eggert local alignment of two sequences matgen3d Generate a 3D-1D scoring matrix from CCF files megamerger Merge two large overlapping DNA sequences merger Merge two overlapping sequences msbar Mutate a sequence mse Multiple Sequence Editor mwcontam Find weights common to multiple molecular weights files mwfilter Filter noisy data from molecular weights file needle Needleman-Wunsch global alignment of two sequences newcpgreport Identify CpG islands in nucleotide sequence(s) newcpgseek Identify and report CpG-rich regions in nucleotide sequence(s) newseq Create a sequence file from a typed-in sequence nohtml Remove mark-up (e.g. HTML tags) from an ASCII text file noreturn Remove carriage return from ASCII files nospace Remove all whitespace from an ASCII text file notab Replace tabs with spaces in an ASCII text file notseq Write to file a subset of an input stream of sequences nthseq Write to file a single sequence from an input stream of sequences oalistat Statistics for multiple alignment files octanol Draw a White-Wimley protein hydropathy plot oddcomp Identify proteins with specified sequence word composition ohmmalign Align sequences with an HMM ohmmbuild Build HMM ohmmcalibrate Calibrate a hidden Markov model ohmmconvert Convert between HMM formats ohmmemit Extract HMM sequences ohmmfetch Extract HMM from a database ohmmindex Index an HMM database ohmmpfam Align single sequence with an HMM ohmmsearch Search sequence database with an HMM omeme Motif detection palindrome Finds inverted repeats in nucleotide sequence(s) pasteseq Insert one sequence into another patmatdb Searches protein sequences with a sequence motif patmatmotifs Scan a protein sequence with motifs from the PROSITE database pdbparse Parses PDB files and writes protein CCF files pdbplus Add accessibility & secondary structure to a CCF file pdbtosp Convert swissprot:PDB codes file to EMBL-like format pepcoil Predicts coiled coil regions in protein sequences pepinfo Plot amino acid properties of a protein sequence in parallel pepnet Draw a helical net for a protein sequence pepstats Calculates statistics of protein properties pepwheel Draw a helical wheel diagram for a protein sequence pepwindow Draw a Kyte-Doolittle hydropathy plot for a protein sequence pepwindowall Draw Kyte-Doolittle hydropathy plot for a protein alignment plotcon Plot conservation of a sequence alignment plotorf Plot potential open reading frames in a nucleotide sequence polydot Draw dotplots for all-against-all comparison of a sequence set preg Regular expression search of protein sequence(s) prettyplot Draw a sequence alignment with pretty formatting prettyseq Write a nucleotide sequence and its translation to file primersearch Search DNA sequences for matches with primer pairs printsextract Extract data from PRINTS database for use by pscan profit Scan one or more sequences with a simple frequency matrix prophecy Create frequency matrix or profile from a multiple alignment prophet Scan one or more sequences with a Gribskov or Henikoff profile prosextract Processes the PROSITE motif database for use by patmatmotifs pscan Scans protein sequence(s) with fingerprints from the PRINTS database psiphi Calculates phi and psi torsion angles from protein coordinates rebaseextract Process the REBASE database for use by restriction enzyme applications recoder Find restriction sites to remove (mutate) with no translation change redata Retrieve information from REBASE restriction enzyme database remap Display restriction enzyme binding sites in a nucleotide sequence restover Find restriction enzymes producing a specific overhang restrict Report restriction enzyme cleavage sites in a nucleotide sequence revseq Reverse and complement a nucleotide sequence rocon Generates a hits file from comparing two DHF files rocplot Performs ROC analysis on hits files scopparse Generate DCF file from raw SCOP files seealso Finds programs with similar function to a specified program seqalign Extend alignments (DAF file) with sequences (DHF file) seqfraggle Removes fragment sequences from DHF files seqmatchall All-against-all word comparison of a sequence set seqnr Removes redundancy from DHF files seqret Reads and writes (returns) sequences seqretsplit Reads sequences and writes them to individual files seqsearch Generate PSI-BLAST hits (DHF file) from a DAF file seqsort Remove ambiguous classified sequences from DHF files seqwords Generates DHF files from keyword search of UniProt showalign Display a multiple sequence alignment in pretty format showdb Displays information on configured databases showfeat Display features of a sequence in pretty format showorf Display a nucleotide sequence and translation in pretty format showseq Displays sequences with features in pretty format shuffleseq Shuffles a set of sequences maintaining composition sigcleave Reports on signal cleavage sites in a protein sequence siggen Generates a sparse protein signature from an alignment siggenlig Generate ligand-binding signatures from a CON file sigscan Generate hits (DHF file) from a signature search sigscanlig Search ligand-signature library & write hits (LHF file) silent Find restriction sites to insert (mutate) with no translation change sirna Finds siRNA duplexes in mRNA sites Generate residue-ligand CON files from CCF files sixpack Display a DNA sequence with 6-frame translation and ORFs sizeseq Sort sequences by size skipredundant Remove redundant sequences from an input set skipseq Reads and writes (returns) sequences, skipping first few splitter Split sequence(s) into smaller sequences ssematch Search a DCF file for secondary structure matches stretcher Needleman-Wunsch rapid global alignment of two sequences stssearch Search a DNA database for matches with a set of STS primers supermatcher Calculate approximate local pair-wise alignments of larger sequences syco Draw synonymous codon usage statictic plot for a nucleotide sequence tcode Identify protein-coding regions using Fickett TESTCODE statistic textsearch Search the textual description of sequence(s) tfextract Process TRANSFAC transcription factor database for use by tfscan tfm Displays full documentation for an application tfscan Identify transcription factor binding sites in DNA sequences tmap Predict and plot transmembrane segments in protein sequences topo Draws an image of a transmembrane protein tranalign Generate an aligment of nucleic coding regions from aligned proteins transeq Translate nucleic acid sequences trimest Remove poly-A tails from nucleotide sequences trimseq Remove unwanted characters from start and end of sequence(s) trimspace Remove extra whitespace from an ASCII text file twofeat Finds neighbouring pairs of features in sequence(s) union Concatenate multiple sequences into a single sequence vectorstrip Removes vectors from the ends of nucleotide sequence(s) vrnaalifold RNA alignment folding vrnaalifoldpf RNA alignment folding with partition vrnacofold RNA cofolding vrnacofoldconc RNA cofolding with concentrations vrnacofoldpf RNA cofolding with partitioning vrnadistance RNA distances vrnaduplex RNA duplex calculation vrnaeval RNA eval vrnaevalpair RNA eval with cofold vrnafold Calculate secondary structures of RNAs vrnafoldpf Secondary structures of RNAs with partition vrnaheat RNA melting vrnainverse RNA sequences matching a structure vrnalfold Calculate locally stable secondary structures of RNAs vrnaplot Plot vrnafold output vrnasubopt Calculate RNA suboptimals water Smith-Waterman local alignment of sequences whichdb Search all sequence databases for an entry and retrieve it wobble Plot third base position variability in a nucleotide sequence wordcount Count and extract unique words in DNA sequence(s) wordfinder Match large sequences against one or more other sequences wordmatch Finds regions of identity (exact matches) of two sequences wossname Finds programs by keywords in their short description yank Add a sequence reference (a full USA) to a list file |
Example 4
Display only the groups that the programs can belong to:
% wossname -search '' -groups Finds programs by keywords in their short description ACD ALIGNMENT CONSENSUS ALIGNMENT DIFFERENCES ALIGNMENT DOT PLOTS ALIGNMENT GLOBAL ALIGNMENT LOCAL ALIGNMENT MULTIPLE ASSEMBLY FRAGMENT ASSEMBLY DISPLAY EDIT ENZYME KINETICS FEATURE TABLES HMM INFORMATION MENUS NUCLEIC 2D STRUCTURE NUCLEIC CODON USAGE NUCLEIC COMPOSITION NUCLEIC CPG ISLANDS NUCLEIC GENE FINDING NUCLEIC MOTIFS NUCLEIC MUTATION NUCLEIC PRIMERS NUCLEIC PROFILES NUCLEIC REPEATS NUCLEIC RESTRICTION NUCLEIC RNA FOLDING NUCLEIC TRANSCRIPTION NUCLEIC TRANSLATION PHYLOGENY CONSENSUS PHYLOGENY CONTINUOUS CHARACTERS PHYLOGENY DISCRETE CHARACTERS PHYLOGENY DISTANCE MATRIX PHYLOGENY GENE FREQUENCIES PHYLOGENY MOLECULAR SEQUENCE PHYLOGENY TREE DRAWING PROTEIN 2D STRUCTURE PROTEIN 3D STRUCTURE PROTEIN COMPOSITION PROTEIN MOTIFS PROTEIN MUTATION PROTEIN PROFILES TEST UTILS DATABASE CREATION UTILS DATABASE INDEXING UTILS MISC |
Example 5
Output html tags around the list of programs:
% wossname '' -html -out wossname.html Finds programs by keywords in their short description |
Go to the output files for this example
Standard (Mandatory) qualifiers:
[-search] string Enter a word or words here and a
case-independent search for it will be made
in the one-line documentation, group names
and keywords of all of the EMBOSS programs.
If no keyword is specified, all programs
will be listed. (Any string is accepted)
Additional (Optional) qualifiers:
-explode boolean [N] The groups that EMBOSS applications
belong to have two forms, exploded and not
exploded. The exploded group names are more
numerous and often vaguely phrased than the
non-exploded ones. The exploded names are
formed from definitions of the group names
that start like NAME1:NAME2 and which are
then expanded into many combinations of the
names as: 'NAME1', 'NAME2', 'NAME1 NAME2',
NAME2 NAME1'. The non-expanded names are
simply like: 'NAME1 NAME2'.
-[no]allmatch boolean [Y] By default, all words in the search
string must match. This option searches for
a match to any word in a list of
possibilities
-showkeywords boolean [N] Show keywords with program documentation
-outfile outfile [stdout] Output file name
-html toggle [N] If you are sending the output to a file,
this will format it for displaying as a
table in a WWW document.
-groups boolean [N] If you use this option, then only the
group names will output to the file
-alphabetic boolean [N] If you use this option, then you will
get a single list of the program names and
descriptions instead of the programs being
listed in their functional groups.
Advanced (Unprompted) qualifiers:
-[no]emboss boolean [Y] If you use this option then EMBOSS
program documentation will be searched. If
this option is set to be false, then only
the EMBASSY programs will be searched (if
the -embassy option is true). EMBASSY
programs are not strictly part of EMBOSS,
but use the same code libraries and share
the same look and feel, but are generally
developed by people who wish the programs to
be outside of the GNU Public Licence scheme
-[no]embassy boolean [Y] If you use this option then EMBASSY
program documentation will be searched. If
this option is set to be false, then only
the EMBOSS programs will be searched (if the
-emboss option is true). EMBASSY programs
are not strictly part of EMBOSS, but use the
same code libraries and share the same look
and feel, but are generally developed by
people who wish the programs to be outside
of the GNU Public Licence scheme
-showembassy string If you use this option then this EMBASSY
package program documentation will be
searched. EMBASSY programs are not strictly
part of EMBOSS, but use the same code
libraries and share the same look and feel,
but are generally developed by people who
wish the programs to be outside of the GNU
Public Licence scheme (Any string is
accepted)
-colon boolean [N] The groups that EMBOSS applications
belong to up to two levels, for example the
primary group 'ALIGNMENT' has several
sub-groups, or second-level groups, e.g.:
CONSENSUS, DIFFERENCES, DOT PLOTS, GLOBAL,
LOCAL, MULTIPLE. To aid programs that parse
the output of wossname that require the
names of these subgroups, a colon ':' will
be placed between the first and second level
of the group name if this option is true.
Note: This does not apply if the group names
have been exploded with the 'explode'
option.
-gui boolean [N] This option is intended to help those
who are designing Graphical User Interfaces
to the EMBOSS applications. Some EMBOSS
programs are inappropriate for running in a
GUI, these include other menu programs and
interactive editors. This option allows you
to only report those programs that can be
run from a GUI
Associated qualifiers:
"-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. 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
|
| Standard (Mandatory) qualifiers | Allowed values | Default | |
|---|---|---|---|
| [-search] (Parameter 1) |
Enter a word or words here and a case-independent search for it will be made in the one-line documentation, group names and keywords of all of the EMBOSS programs. If no keyword is specified, all programs will be listed. | Any string is accepted | An empty string is accepted |
| Additional (Optional) qualifiers | Allowed values | Default | |
| -explode | The groups that EMBOSS applications belong to have two forms, exploded and not exploded. The exploded group names are more numerous and often vaguely phrased than the non-exploded ones. The exploded names are formed from definitions of the group names that start like NAME1:NAME2 and which are then expanded into many combinations of the names as: 'NAME1', 'NAME2', 'NAME1 NAME2', NAME2 NAME1'. The non-expanded names are simply like: 'NAME1 NAME2'. | Boolean value Yes/No | No |
| -[no]allmatch | By default, all words in the search string must match. This option searches for a match to any word in a list of possibilities | Boolean value Yes/No | Yes |
| -showkeywords | Show keywords with program documentation | Boolean value Yes/No | No |
| -outfile | Output file name | Output file | stdout |
| -html | If you are sending the output to a file, this will format it for displaying as a table in a WWW document. | Toggle value Yes/No | No |
| -groups | If you use this option, then only the group names will output to the file | Boolean value Yes/No | No |
| -alphabetic | If you use this option, then you will get a single list of the program names and descriptions instead of the programs being listed in their functional groups. | Boolean value Yes/No | No |
| Advanced (Unprompted) qualifiers | Allowed values | Default | |
| -[no]emboss | If you use this option then EMBOSS program documentation will be searched. If this option is set to be false, then only the EMBASSY programs will be searched (if the -embassy option is true). EMBASSY programs are not strictly part of EMBOSS, but use the same code libraries and share the same look and feel, but are generally developed by people who wish the programs to be outside of the GNU Public Licence scheme | Boolean value Yes/No | Yes |
| -[no]embassy | If you use this option then EMBASSY program documentation will be searched. If this option is set to be false, then only the EMBOSS programs will be searched (if the -emboss option is true). EMBASSY programs are not strictly part of EMBOSS, but use the same code libraries and share the same look and feel, but are generally developed by people who wish the programs to be outside of the GNU Public Licence scheme | Boolean value Yes/No | Yes |
| -showembassy | If you use this option then this EMBASSY package program documentation will be searched. EMBASSY programs are not strictly part of EMBOSS, but use the same code libraries and share the same look and feel, but are generally developed by people who wish the programs to be outside of the GNU Public Licence scheme | Any string is accepted | An empty string is accepted |
| -colon | The groups that EMBOSS applications belong to up to two levels, for example the primary group 'ALIGNMENT' has several sub-groups, or second-level groups, e.g.: CONSENSUS, DIFFERENCES, DOT PLOTS, GLOBAL, LOCAL, MULTIPLE. To aid programs that parse the output of wossname that require the names of these subgroups, a colon ':' will be placed between the first and second level of the group name if this option is true. Note: This does not apply if the group names have been exploded with the 'explode' option. | Boolean value Yes/No | No |
| -gui | This option is intended to help those who are designing Graphical User Interfaces to the EMBOSS applications. Some EMBOSS programs are inappropriate for running in a GUI, these include other menu programs and interactive editors. This option allows you to only report those programs that can be run from a GUI | Boolean value Yes/No | No |
wossname reads the brief descriptions and the program groups from the ACD files. (ACD files control the parameters that the programs expect - don't worry about them unless you are writing EMBOSS programs).
The format of ACD files is documented elsewhere.
| <h2><a name="ACD">ACD</a></h2> <table border cellpadding=4 bgcolor="#FFFFF0"> <tr><th>Program name</th> <th>Description</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="acdc.html">acdc</a></td> <td>Test an application ACD file</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="acdpretty.html">acdpretty</a></td> <td>Correctly reformat an application ACD file</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="acdtable.html">acdtable</a></td> <td>Generate an HTML table of parameters from an application ACD file</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="acdtrace.html">acdtrace</a></td> <td>Trace processing of an application ACD file (for testing)</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="acdvalid.html">acdvalid</a></td> <td>Validate an application ACD file</td> </tr> </table> <h2><a name="ALIGNMENT CONSENSUS">ALIGNMENT CONSENSUS</a></h2> <table border cellpadding=4 bgcolor="#FFFFF0"> <tr><th>Program name</th> <th>Description</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="cons.html">cons</a></td> <td>Create a consensus sequence from a multiple alignment</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="consambig.html">consambig</a></td> <td>Create an ambiguous consensus sequence from a multiple alignment</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="megamerger.html">megamerger</a></td> <td>Merge two large overlapping DNA sequences</td> </tr> <tr> [Part of this file has been deleted for brevity] <tr> <td><a href="dbiblast.html">dbiblast</a></td> <td>Index a BLAST database</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="dbifasta.html">dbifasta</a></td> <td>Index a fasta file database</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="dbiflat.html">dbiflat</a></td> <td>Index a flat file database</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="dbigcg.html">dbigcg</a></td> <td>Index a GCG formatted database</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="dbxfasta.html">dbxfasta</a></td> <td>Index a fasta file database using b+tree indices</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="dbxflat.html">dbxflat</a></td> <td>Index a flat file database using b+tree indices</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="dbxgcg.html">dbxgcg</a></td> <td>Index a GCG formatted database using b+tree indices</td> </tr> </table> <h2><a name="UTILS MISC">UTILS MISC</a></h2> <table border cellpadding=4 bgcolor="#FFFFF0"> <tr><th>Program name</th> <th>Description</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="embossdata.html">embossdata</a></td> <td>Find and retrieve EMBOSS data files</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="embossversion.html">embossversion</a></td> <td>Writes the current EMBOSS version number to a file</td> </tr> </table> |
If the -html, -prelink and -postlink qualifiers are specified, then the output will be wrapped in HTML tags, ready for inclusion in a Web page. Note that tags such as <HTML>, <BODY>, </BODY> and </HTML> are not output by this program as the list of programs is expected to form only part of the contents of a web page - the rest of the web page must be supplied by the user.
wossname reads the short descriptions and the program groups from the program ACD files. These file describe the command-line interface of the applications. You don't need to know about them unless you are writing EMBOSS programs. They are described in the EMBOSS Developers Manual.
If a program's ACD file does not specify a program group, then it will be automatically assigned to the group ASSORTED in the output file. A program can belong to more than one group.
| Program name | Description |
|---|---|
| infoalign | Display basic information about a multiple sequence alignment |
| infobase | Return information on a given nucleotide base |
| inforesidue | Return information on a given amino acid residue |
| infoseq | Display basic information about sequences |
| seealso | Finds programs with similar function to a specified program |
| showdb | Displays information on configured databases |
| textsearch | Search the textual description of sequence(s) |
| tfm | Displays full documentation for an application |
| whichdb | Search all sequence databases for an entry and retrieve it |