[EMBOSS] any APIs for vectorstrip or EMBOSS

[Peter Rice]

Dear Forrest,

> I am writing a program in which vectorstrip is used to remove vectors. I
> wanna be able to call the functions in vectorstrips from my program. Does
> vectorstrips or EMBOSS have a set of APIs that I can use?

You can call any EMBOSS application using the command line by adding any 
options you need (some are required, for example the input sequence or 
file, other have default values) and add "-auto" to default any other 
options.

You can also add the command line option "-filter" to read the first 
input from standard input, and to write the first output to standard 
output, so you can then write the input directly to the EMBOSS program 
and read the output directly from the program.

If you allow the program to write output to a file, we recommend that 
you specify the output file name (for example "-outfile vec.out -outseq 
vec.seq") so your program knows which file to open.

Hope this helps

Peter Rice
EMBOSS Team