EMBOSS: seqsort

| ## EMBOSS: seqsort

# Program seqsort

## Function

Removes ambiguities from a set of hits resulting from a database search

## Description

This is part of Jon Ison's protein structure analysis package.

This package is still being developed.

Please ignore this program until further details can be documented.

All further queries should go to Jon Ison. (Jon Ison)

## Usage

Here is a sample session with seqsort:

    % seqsort

## Command line arguments

       Mandatory qualifiers (* if not always prompted):
      [-mode]              menu       Select mode
      [-overlap]           integer    number of overlapping residues required for
                                      merging of two hits
    *  -psipath            string     Location of psiblasts hits files
    *  -psiextn            string     Extension of psiblasts hits files
    *  -swisspath          string     Location of swissparse hits files
    *  -swissextn          string     Extension of swissparse input files
    *  -psifile            string     Name of file containing sorted psiblasts
                                      results
    *  -swissfile          string     Name of file containing sorted swissparse
                                      results
      [-outfile]           string     Name of output file

       Optional qualifiers: (none)
       Advanced qualifiers: (none)
       General qualifiers:
      -help                bool       report command line options. More
                                      information on associated and general
                                      qualifiers can be found with -help -verbose

Mandatory qualifiers | Allowed values | Default
--- | --- | ---
[-mode] (Parameter 1) | Select mode |
1 | (Process psiblast hits)
2 | (Process swissparse hits)
3 | (Merge psiblast and swissparse hits)
| 1
[-overlap] (Parameter 2) | number of overlapping residues required for merging of two hits | Any integer value | 10
-psipath | Location of psiblasts hits files | Any string is accepted | ./
-psiextn | Extension of psiblasts hits files | Any string is accepted | .psiblasts
-swisspath | Location of swissparse hits files | Any string is accepted | ./
-swissextn | Extension of swissparse input files | Any string is accepted | .swissparse
-psifile | Name of file containing sorted psiblasts results | Any string is accepted | An empty string is accepted
-swissfile | Name of file containing sorted swissparse results | Any string is accepted | An empty string is accepted
[-outfile] (Parameter 3) | Name of output file | Any string is accepted | An empty string is accepted
Optional qualifiers | Allowed values | Default
(none)
Advanced qualifiers | Allowed values | Default
(none)

## Input file format

## Output file format

## Data files

## Notes

None.

## References

None.

## Warnings

None.

## Diagnostic Error Messages

None.

## Exit status

It always exits with status 0.

## Known bugs

None.

## See also

Program name | Description
--- | ---
contacts | Reads coordinate files and writes contact files
dichet | Parse dictionary of heterogen groups
interface | Reads coordinate files and writes inter-chain contact files
psiblasts | Runs PSI-BLAST given scopalign alignments
scopalign | Generate alignments for SCOP families
siggen | Generates a sparse protein signature
sigscan | Scans a sparse protein signature against swissprot

## Author(s)

This application was written by Jon Ison (jison@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk)

## History

Written (date) - author.

## Target users

This program is intended to be used by everyone and everything, from naive users to embedded scripts.

## Comments