[emboss-dev] number of sequences in a database

Alan Bleasby ableasby at hgmp.mrc.ac.uk
Mon Jul 25 06:22:20 UTC 2005


There is no API call, as yet, to find the total number of sequences in
a database - although this can be easily implemented for the
dbx* indexing programs. If you have indexed using the dbx* programs
then you can find the number of sequences by 'cat'ing the
'.pxid' index file.

HTH

Alan



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