---
name: "dfi"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "seqan-apps"
version: "1.3.1-1"
release: "Debian 7 (Wheezy)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/dfi"
---

# dfi(1)

The Deferred Frequency Index

## NAME

DFI - The Deferred Frequency Index

## SYNOPSIS

**dfi** \[*OPTION*\]... *--minmax  \<min\_1\> \<max\_1\> \<database 1\>* ... *--minmax \<min\_m\> \<max\_m\> \<database m\>*

## DESCRIPTION

DFI - The Deferred Frequency Index

- dfi \[OPTION\]... **--growth** \<rho\_s\> \<rho\_g\> \<database 1\> \<database 2\>

  - dfi \[OPTION\]... **--entropy** \<rho\_s\> \<alpha\> \<database 1\> \<database 2\> ... \<database m\>

  - **-h**, **--help**

  displays this help message

- **-V**, **--version**

  print version information

- **-f**, **--minmax** NUM1 NUM2

  solve Frequent Pattern Mining Problem

- **-g**, **--growth** NUM1 NUM2

  solve Emerging Substring Mining Problem

- **-e**, **--entropy** NUM1 NUM2

  solve Entropy Mining Problem

- **-p**, **--protein**

  use AminoAcid alphabet (for proteomes)

- **-d**, **--dna**

  use DNA alphabet (for genomes)

- **-m**, **--maximal**

  output only left and right maximal substrings The default is byte alphabet

## AUTHOR

dfi was written by David Weese and Marcel H. Schulz.

This manual page was generated using html2man and polished by Soeren Sonnenburg \<sonne@debian.org\>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).