Multiple reports for an application

[David Martin]

On 25/2/03 10:44 am, "Peter Rice" <pmr at ebi.ac.uk> wrote:

> David Martin wrote:
>> Having started to use the rformat options, is it possible to generate more
>> than one format for a particular program.
>> 
>> ie, if I am running fuzzpro and would like not only a listfile but also the
>> motif output do I have to run the analysis twice or can EMBOSS output
>> multiple reports in different formats?
> 
> You need to run the program twice.
> 
> Producing two report formats is trivial (two calls to the report writing
> code with different formats), but where would you write the second report?

-routfile gives the base so

-rformat gff,listfile -routfile report

should give
report.gff and report.listfile

A thought.

..d

> 
> An alternative is to save the report in rformat GFF and rewrite the
> features (demoreport does this kind of thing) but it would need a way to
> specify the report columns for some of the reports... unless, perhaps,
> we can save them in a GFF header comment. Hmmmm .... could be
> interesting. Still very tricky for reports on more than one sequence, if
> any format needs to report the sequence. But worth think about some more.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Peter
> 
> 

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David Martin PhD
Bioinformatics Scientific Officer
Post-Genomics and Molecular Interactions Centre
University of Dundee