cdscan1

Scan through sequence records on the entrez discs

Usage

cdscan [-] [-c] [-f N] [-o filename] [-p] [-s N]

Overview

This manual page documents briefly the cdscan command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

cdscan is a simple program that scans through sequence records on the Entrez discs.

Options

A summary of options is included below.

-: Print usage message

-c: Print SeqIds to output file and progress monitor

-f N

Output format:

1: GenBank (default)

2: FASTA

-o filename: Output File (default = stdout)

-p: Show progress monitor

-s N

Type of sequence to scan:

1: DNA (default)

2: Protein