textsearch
Function
Description
This is a small utility search for words in the description text of a
sequence and for each match list the sequence's name and/or
description. NB. It only searches the description line of the
annotation, not the full annotation.
Usage
Command line arguments
Input file format
textsearch reads one or more normal sequence USAs.
Output file format
The first column in the name or ID of each sequence. The remaining
text is the description line of the sequence.
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>, <BODY>, </BODY> and </HTML> 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. So if '-nodesc' is used, there will not be any
whitespace after the ID name.
Data files
None.
Notes
This is a rather slow way to search for text in databases. If you are
searching for text in public databases, you should consider using
either Entrez (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Entrez/)
or SRS (http://srs.rfcgr.mrc.ac.uk/ or http://www.sanger.ac.uk/srs6/
etc.)
References
None.
Warnings
None.
Diagnostic Error Messages
None.
Exit status
It always exits with status 0
Known bugs
None.
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History
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