[EMBOSS] can't access databases indexed by dbifasta

Gary Williams, Tel 01223 494522 gwilliam at hgmp.mrc.ac.uk
Wed Feb 18 13:47:31 UTC 2004


Marcus Claesson wrote:
> But this doesn't work and I don't know why since I added the 'des
> field'. Are queries like these suppose to work by the way?
> 
> [marcus]$ seqret ecoli_nt:\*mitochondrio\* -auto -stdout
> Error: Unable to read sequence 'ecoli_nt:*mitochondrio*'
> Died: seqret terminated: Bad value for '-sequence' with -auto defined

The correct syntax should be:
seqret ecoli_nt-des:\*mitochondrio\* -auto -stdout
See:
http://www.rfcgr.mrc.ac.uk/Software/EMBOSS/Themes/UniformSequenceAddress.html#keys

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