[EMBOSS] Escaping query terms in a USA

[Hamish McWilliam]

Hi folks,

In the IMGT/HLA database (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ipd/imgt/hla/) the 
keywords field in the EMBL-Bank format flat-file contains allele names like:

A*02:364

While I can build an index containing the keywords, it does not appear 
to be possible to search the index with the allele names. For example:

$ entret -stdout -auto 'imgthla-key:Allele'

works as expected, but:

$ entret -stdout -auto 'imgthla-key:A*02:364'

just gives errors:

Error: Failed to open filename 'imgthla-key'
Error: Unable to read sequence 'imgthla-key:A*02:364'
Died: entret terminated: Bad value for '-sequence' with -auto defined

I am guessing that the problem is the '*' and ':' characters in the 
term... so is there some way to escape these or are the terms in the 
index mangles in some way?

All the best,

Hamish
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Mr Hamish McWilliam,
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