---
name: "dbSwiss"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "librg-utils-perl"
version: "1.0.43-9"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/dbSwiss"
---

# dbSwiss(1)

create DBM version of Swiss-Prot data

## NAME

dbSwiss - create DBM version of Swiss-Prot data

## SYNOPSIS

/usr/share/librg-utils-perl/dbSwiss \[OPTIONS\]

/usr/share/librg-utils-perl/dbSwiss --datadir /data/swissprot --infile /data/swissprot/uniprot\_sprot.dat

/usr/share/librg-utils-perl/dbSwiss \[--help\] \[--man\]

## DESCRIPTION

dbSwiss creates DBM version of Swiss-Prot data.  This procedure is to replace splitSwiss.pl.  splitSwiss.pl saves Swiss-Prot records in separate files resulting in over 13 million relatively tiny files that take very long to create and rsync.  dbSwiss instead saves each record into a DBM database that is optimized for fast retrieval.

## OPTIONS

- \-d, --datadir=*path*

  directory of database files, default: '/mnt/project/rost\_db/data/swissprot'

- \--debug

  - \--nodebug

  - \--first20

  - \--nofirst20

  process only first 20 records, for debugging

- \--help

  - \-i, --infile=*path*

  Swiss-Prot data flatfile, default: '/mnt/project/rost\_db/data/swissprot/uniprot\_sprot.dat'.

- \--man

  - \--quiet

  - \--noquiet

  do not print progress status

- \--readback

  - \--noreadback

  read records back after storing and print them

- \--table

  name of database table and consequently the base name of database files, default: 'dbswiss'

- \--version

  - \-w, --workdir=*path*

  Optional working directory. Automatically created and removed if not defined.

## AUTHOR

Laszlo Kajan \<lkajan@rostlab.org\>