[EMBOSS] question!

[fangw at CLEMSON.EDU]

Dear EMBOSS people:

I am a Ph.D. student in Clemson University in USA, who is using your
EMBOSS software to extract 5' upstream of a list of genes. However, I met
some problem when I use EMBOSS:

I installed EMBOSS 2.10.0 in on windowsXP PC.  However, when I use command
"extractfeat genbank:*", it does not work. The error message is
"Error:uable to read sequence 'genbank:4101655', Died: extractfeat
termined:Bad value for '-sequence' and no prompt".  But it work fine
with "extractfeat embl:AK222810".Do you know the reason?

Is there any way to access ENsembl database. Is there any new version of
EMBOSS which could support more databases which could installed in
windowsXP?

Are all the databases which EMBOSS connected are the latest version? since
I found some database do not give the same results as what I get from the
database directly.

Thanks!

I am looking forward to your reply.

FANG WANG
Department of Genetics and Biochemistry
Clemson University