prosextract

Function

Description

prosextract processes the PROSITE motif database for use by patmatmotifs. It reads the prosite.dat and prosite.doc files (from the Prosite distribution) from the specified directory and writes an output file (by default called prosite.lines) with the following information (corresponding lines from prosite.dat given in parentheses): i. Identity (ID). ii. Accession number (AC). iii. Motif pattern (PA). iv. The motif pattern converted a regular expression. Additionally, one output file per accession number is written containing documentation from prosite.doc.

Usage

The output files named after the prosite accession numbers can now also be seen in the prosite directory. This files are automatically created after prosextract is run.

Command line arguments

Input file format

These files must be the "prosite.dat" and "prosite.doc" file of a Prosite distribution, containing all current prosite data.

Output file format

These files are held in the prosite subdirectory of the emboss data directory. The default names are "prosite.lines" and "PS*****" (accession number documentation files)

Data files

See Input file format above.

Notes

This program most be run as a prerequisite to using patmatmotifs.

References

  1. Bairoch, A., Bucher P. (1994) PROSITE: recent developments. Nucleic Acids Research, Vol 22, No.17 3583-3589.
  2. Bairoch, A., (1992) PROSITE: a dictionary of sites and patterns in proteins. Nucleic Acids Research, Vol 20, Supplement, 2013-2018.
  3. Peek, J., O'Reilly, T., Loukides, M., (1997) Unix Power Tools, 2nd Edition.

Warnings

The program will warn the user if the input file is incorrectly formatted.

Diagnostic Error Messages

As in warnings.

Exit status

Always exits with status 0

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