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Function

Finds programs by keywords in their short description

Description

wossname searches for the specified keywords (or parts thereof) in the application short description (as displayed by a program when it starts), functional group name and keywords. The group name, application name and short description of any matching applications is output (screen by default). If no search words are specified, then details of all the EMBOSS programs are output. There are various options for controlling how the search is performed and what is given in the output file. Optionally, the output will be wrapped in HTML tags ready for inclusion in a Web page.

Usage

Here is a sample session with wossname

Search for programs with 'restrict' in their description:


% wossname restrict 
Finds programs by keywords in their short description

SEARCH FOR 'RESTRICT'
erestml       Restriction site Maximum Likelihood method
frestboot     Bootstrapped restriction sites algorithm
frestdist     Distance matrix from restriction sites or fragments
frestml       Restriction site maximum Likelihood method
rebaseextract Process the REBASE database for use by restriction enzyme applications
recoder       Find restriction sites to remove (mutate) with no translation change
redata        Retrieve information from REBASE restriction enzyme database
remap         Display restriction enzyme binding sites in a nucleotide sequence
restover      Find restriction enzymes producing a specific overhang
restrict      Report restriction enzyme cleavage sites in a nucleotide sequence
showseq       Displays sequences with features in pretty format
silent        Find restriction sites to insert (mutate) with no translation change


Example 2

Display a listing of programs in their groups:


% wossname -search "" 
Finds programs by keywords in their short description

ACD
acdc      Test an application ACD file
acdpretty Correctly reformat an application ACD file
acdtable  Generate an HTML table of parameters from an application ACD file
acdtrace  Trace processing of an application ACD file (for testing)
acdvalid  Validate an application ACD file

ALIGNMENT
extractalign Extract regions from a sequence alignment

ALIGNMENT CONSENSUS
cons       Create a consensus sequence from a multiple alignment
consambig  Create an ambiguous consensus sequence from a multiple alignment
megamerger Merge two large overlapping DNA sequences
merger     Merge two overlapping sequences

ALIGNMENT DIFFERENCES
diffseq Compare and report features of two similar sequences

ALIGNMENT DOT PLOTS
dotmatcher Draw a threshold dotplot of two sequences
dotpath    Draw a non-overlapping wordmatch dotplot of two sequences
dottup     Displays a wordmatch dotplot of two sequences
polydot    Draw dotplots for all-against-all comparison of a sequence set

ALIGNMENT GLOBAL
esim4      Align an mRNA to a genomic DNA sequence
est2genome Align EST sequences to genomic DNA sequence
needle     Needleman-Wunsch global alignment of two sequences
needleall  Many-to-many pairwise alignments of two sequence sets
stretcher  Needleman-Wunsch rapid global alignment of two sequences

ALIGNMENT LOCAL
domainalign  Generate alignments (DAF file) for nodes in a DCF file
domainrep    Reorder DCF file to identify representative structures
matcher      Waterman-Eggert local alignment of two sequences
oalistat     Statistics for multiple alignment files
seqalign     Extend alignments (DAF file) with sequences (DHF file)
seqmatchall  All-against-all word comparison of a sequence set
supermatcher Calculate approximate local pair-wise alignments of larger sequences
water        Smith-Waterman local alignment of sequences
wordfinder   Match large sequences against one or more other sequences
wordmatch    Finds regions of identity (exact matches) of two sequences

ALIGNMENT MULTIPLE
edialign   Local multiple alignment of sequences
emma       Multiple sequence alignment (ClustalW wrapper)
eomega     Multiple sequence alignment (ClustalO wrapper)
eomegapp   Profile with profile (ClustalO wrapper)
eomegash   Sequence with HMM (ClustalO wrapper)
eomegasp   Sequence with profile (ClustalO wrapper)
infoalign  Display basic information about a multiple sequence alignment
mse        Multiple Sequence Editor
plotcon    Plot conservation of a sequence alignment
prettyplot Draw a sequence alignment with pretty formatting
showalign  Display a multiple sequence alignment in pretty format
tranalign  Generate an alignment of nucleic coding regions from aligned proteins

ASSEMBLY FRAGMENT ASSEMBLY
emira    MIRA fragment assembly program
emiraest MIRAest fragment assembly program

DATA RESOURCES
cachedas         Generates server cache file for DAS servers or for the DAS registry
cachedbfetch     Generates server cache file for Dbfetch/WSDbfetch data sources
cacheebeyesearch Generates server cache file for EB-eye search domains
cacheensembl     Generates server cache file for an Ensembl server
dbtell           Display information about a public database
servertell       Display information about a public server
showdb           Displays information on configured databases
showserver       Displays information on configured servers

DATA RETRIEVAL
codcopy Copy and reformat a codon usage table
seqret  Reads and writes (returns) sequences

DATA RETRIEVAL CHEMISTRY DATA
infobase    Return information on a given nucleotide base
inforesidue Return information on a given amino acid residue

DATA RETRIEVAL FEATURE DATA
featcopy Reads and writes a feature table

DATA RETRIEVAL ONTOLOGY DATA
edamdef         Find EDAM ontology terms by definition
edamhasinput    Find EDAM ontology terms by has_input relation
edamhasoutput   Find EDAM ontology terms by has_output relation
edamisformat    Find EDAM ontology terms by is_format_of relation
edamisid        Find EDAM ontology terms by is_identifier_of relation
edamname        Find EDAM ontology terms by name
godef           Find GO ontology terms by definition
goname          Find GO ontology terms by name
ontoget         Get ontology term(s)
ontogetcommon   Get common ancestor for terms
ontogetdown     Get ontology term(s) by parent id
ontogetobsolete Get ontology ontology terms
ontogetroot     Get ontology root terms by child identifier
ontogetsibs     Get ontology term(s) by id with common parent
ontogetup       Get ontology term(s) by id of child
ontoisobsolete  Report whether an ontology term id is obsolete
ontotext        Get ontology term(s) original full text

DATA RETRIEVAL RESOURCE DATA
drfinddata     Find public databases by data type
drfindformat   Find public databases by format
drfindid       Find public databases by identifier
drfindresource Find public databases by resource
drget          Get data resource entries
drtext         Get data resource entries complete text

DATA RETRIEVAL SEQUENCE DATA
abiview      Display the trace in an ABI sequencer file
coderet      Extract CDS, mRNA and translations from feature tables
entret       Retrieves sequence entries from flatfile databases and files
extractalign Extract regions from a sequence alignment
infoalign    Display basic information about a multiple sequence alignment
infoseq      Display basic information about sequences
seqxref      Retrieve all database cross-references for a sequence entry
seqxrefget   Retrieve all cross-referenced data for a sequence entry
showalign    Display a multiple sequence alignment in pretty format
whichdb      Search all sequence databases for an entry and retrieve it

DATA RETRIEVAL TEXT DATA
drtext     Get data resource entries complete text
entret     Retrieves sequence entries from flatfile databases and files
ontotext   Get ontology term(s) original full text
textget    Get text data entries
textsearch Search the textual description of sequence(s)

DATA RETRIEVAL TOOL DATA
acdc      Test an application ACD file
acdpretty Correctly reformat an application ACD file
acdtable  Generate an HTML table of parameters from an application ACD file
acdtrace  Trace processing of an application ACD file (for testing)
acdvalid  Validate an application ACD file

DATA RETRIEVAL URL DATA
urlget Get URLs of data resources

DISPLAY
abiview    Display the trace in an ABI sequencer file
cirdna     Draws circular maps of DNA constructs
iep        Calculate the isoelectric point of proteins
lindna     Draws linear maps of DNA constructs
pepinfo    Plot amino acid properties of a protein sequence in parallel
pepnet     Draw a helical net for a protein sequence
pepwheel   Draw a helical wheel diagram for a protein sequence
plotorf    Plot potential open reading frames in a nucleotide sequence
prettyplot Draw a sequence alignment with pretty formatting
prettyseq  Write a nucleotide sequence and its translation to file
remap      Display restriction enzyme binding sites in a nucleotide sequence
showfeat   Display features of a sequence in pretty format
showpep    Displays protein sequences with features in pretty format
sixpack    Display a DNA sequence with 6-frame translation and ORFs
topo       Draws an image of a transmembrane protein

DOCUMENTATION
seealso       Finds programs with similar function to a specified program
tfm           Displays full documentation for an application
wossdata      Finds programs by EDAM data
wossinput     Finds programs by EDAM input data
wossname      Finds programs by keywords in their short description
wossoperation Finds programs by EDAM operation
wossoutput    Finds programs by EDAM output data
wossparam     Finds programs by EDAM parameter
wosstopic     Finds programs by EDAM topic

EDIT
aligncopy     Reads and writes alignments
aligncopypair Reads and writes pairs from alignments
biosed        Replace or delete sequence sections
codcopy       Copy and reformat a codon usage table
cutseq        Removes a section from a sequence
degapseq      Removes non-alphabetic (e.g. gap) characters from sequences
descseq       Alter the name or description of a sequence
entret        Retrieves sequence entries from flatfile databases and files
extractalign  Extract regions from a sequence alignment
extractfeat   Extract features from sequence(s)
extractseq    Extract regions from a sequence
featcopy      Reads and writes a feature table
featreport    Reads and writes a feature table
feattext      Return a feature table original text
listor        Write a list file of the logical OR of two sets of sequences
makenucseq    Create random nucleotide sequences
makeprotseq   Create random protein sequences
maskambignuc  Masks all ambiguity characters in nucleotide sequences with N
maskambigprot Masks all ambiguity characters in protein sequences with X
maskfeat      Write a sequence with masked features
maskseq       Write a sequence with masked regions
newseq        Create a sequence file from a typed-in sequence
nohtml        Remove mark-up (e.g. HTML tags) from an ASCII text file
noreturn      Remove carriage return from ASCII files
nospace       Remove whitespace from an ASCII text file
notab         Replace tabs with spaces in an ASCII text file
notseq        Write to file a subset of an input stream of sequences
nthseq        Write to file a single sequence from an input stream of sequences
nthseqset     Reads and writes (returns) one set of sequences from many
pasteseq      Insert one sequence into another
revseq        Reverse and complement a nucleotide sequence
seqcount      Reads and counts sequences
seqfraggle    Removes fragment sequences from DHF files
seqret        Reads and writes (returns) sequences
seqretsetall  Reads and writes (returns) many sets of sequences
seqretsplit   Reads sequences and writes them to individual files
sizeseq       Sort sequences by size
skipredundant Remove redundant sequences from an input set
skipseq       Reads and writes (returns) sequences, skipping first few
splitsource   Split sequence(s) into original source sequences
splitter      Split sequence(s) into smaller sequences
trimest       Remove poly-A tails from nucleotide sequences
trimseq       Remove unwanted characters from start and end of sequence(s)
trimspace     Remove extra whitespace from an ASCII text file
union         Concatenate multiple sequences into a single sequence
vectorstrip   Removes vectors from the ends of nucleotide sequence(s)
yank          Add a sequence reference (a full USA) to a list file

ENZYME KINETICS
findkm Calculate and plot enzyme reaction data

FEATURE TABLES
extractfeat Extract features from sequence(s)
maskfeat    Write a sequence with masked features
showfeat    Display features of a sequence in pretty format
twofeat     Finds neighbouring pairs of features in sequence(s)

HMM
ehmmalign     Align sequences to an HMM profile
ehmmbuild     Build a profile HMM from an alignment
ehmmcalibrate Calibrate HMM search statistics
ehmmconvert   Convert between profile HMM file formats
ehmmemit      Generate sequences from a profile HMM
ehmmfetch     Retrieve an HMM from an HMM database
ehmmindex     Create a binary SSI index for an HMM database
ehmmpfam      Search one or more sequences against an HMM database
ehmmsearch    Search a sequence database with a profile HMM
libgen        Generate discriminating elements from alignments
ohmmalign     Align sequences with an HMM
ohmmbuild     Build HMM
ohmmcalibrate Calibrate a hidden Markov model
ohmmconvert   Convert between HMM formats
ohmmemit      Extract HMM sequences
ohmmfetch     Extract HMM from a database
ohmmindex     Index an HMM database
ohmmpfam      Align single sequence with an HMM
ohmmsearch    Search sequence database with an HMM

MENUS
emnu   Simple menu of EMBOSS applications

NUCLEIC 2D STRUCTURE
banana          Plot bending and curvature data for B-DNA
btwisted        Calculate the twisting in a B-DNA sequence
einverted       Finds inverted repeats in nucleotide sequences
ovrnaalifold    RNA alignment folding
ovrnaalifoldpf  RNA alignment folding with partition
ovrnacofold     RNA cofolding
ovrnacofoldconc RNA cofolding with concentrations
ovrnacofoldpf   RNA cofolding with partitioning
ovrnadistance   RNA distances
ovrnaduplex     RNA duplex calculation
ovrnaeval       RNA eval
ovrnaevalpair   RNA eval with cofold
ovrnafold       Calculate secondary structures of RNAs
ovrnafoldpf     Secondary structures of RNAs with partition
ovrnaheat       RNA melting
ovrnainverse    RNA sequences matching a structure
ovrnalfold      Calculate locally stable secondary structures of RNAs
ovrnaplot       Plot vrnafold output
ovrnasubopt     Calculate RNA suboptimals
sirna           Finds siRNA duplexes in mRNA
vrna2dfold      Structures and samples of k,l neighbourhoods
vrnaaliduplex   RNA duplex calculation for two sequence alignments
vrnaalifold     RNA alignment folding
vrnaalifoldpf   RNA alignment folding with partition
vrnacofold      RNA cofolding
vrnacofoldconc  RNA cofolding with concentrations
vrnacofoldpf    RNA cofolding with partitioning
vrnadistance    RNA distances
vrnaduplex      RNA duplex calculation
vrnaeval        RNA eval
vrnaevalpair    RNA eval with cofold
vrnafold        Calculate secondary structures of RNAs
vrnafoldpf      Secondary structures of RNAs with partition
vrnaheat        RNA melting
vrnainverse     RNA sequences matching a structure
vrnalalifoldpf  Locally stable 2ry structures for a set of aligned RNAs
vrnalfold       Calculate locally stable secondary structures of RNAs
vrnalfoldz      Locally stable secondary structures of RNAs plus zscore
vrnapkplex      RNA structures plus pseudoknots
vrnaplfold      Locally stable RNA 2ry structures - pair probabilities
vrnaplot        Plot vrnafold output
vrnasubopt      Calculate RNA suboptimals

NUCLEIC CODON USAGE
cai     Calculate codon adaptation index
chips   Calculates Nc codon usage statistic
codcmp  Codon usage table comparison
codcopy Copy and reformat a codon usage table
cusp    Create a codon usage table from nucleotide sequence(s)
syco    Draw synonymous codon usage statistic plot for a nucleotide sequence

NUCLEIC COMPOSITION
banana    Plot bending and curvature data for B-DNA
btwisted  Calculate the twisting in a B-DNA sequence
chaos     Draw a chaos game representation plot for a nucleotide sequence
compseq   Calculate the composition of unique words in sequences
dan       Calculates nucleic acid melting temperature
density   Draw a nucleic acid density plot
freak     Generate residue/base frequency table or plot
isochore  Plots isochores in DNA sequences
wordcount Count and extract unique words in molecular sequence(s)

NUCLEIC CPG ISLANDS
cpgplot      Identify and plot CpG islands in nucleotide sequence(s)
cpgreport    Identify and report CpG-rich regions in nucleotide sequence(s)
geecee       Calculate fractional GC content of nucleic acid sequences
newcpgreport Identify CpG islands in nucleotide sequence(s)
newcpgseek   Identify and report CpG-rich regions in nucleotide sequence(s)

NUCLEIC FUNCTIONAL SITES
marscan Finds matrix/scaffold recognition (MRS) signatures in DNA sequences
sirna   Finds siRNA duplexes in mRNA
trimest Remove poly-A tails from nucleotide sequences

NUCLEIC GENE FINDING
checktrans Reports STOP codons and ORF statistics of a protein
getorf     Finds and extracts open reading frames (ORFs)
marscan    Finds matrix/scaffold recognition (MRS) signatures in DNA sequences
plotorf    Plot potential open reading frames in a nucleotide sequence
showorf    Display a nucleotide sequence and translation in pretty format
sixpack    Display a DNA sequence with 6-frame translation and ORFs
syco       Draw synonymous codon usage statistic plot for a nucleotide sequence
tcode      Identify protein-coding regions using Fickett TESTCODE statistic
wobble     Plot third base position variability in a nucleotide sequence

NUCLEIC MOTIFS
dreg     Regular expression search of nucleotide sequence(s)
fuzznuc  Search for patterns in nucleotide sequences
fuzztran Search for patterns in protein sequences (translated)

NUCLEIC MUTATION
msbar      Mutate a sequence
shuffleseq Shuffles a set of sequences maintaining composition

NUCLEIC PRIMERS
eprimer3     Picks PCR primers and hybridization oligos
eprimer32    Picks PCR primers and hybridization oligos
primersearch Search DNA sequences for matches with primer pairs
stssearch    Search a DNA database for matches with a set of STS primers

NUCLEIC PROFILES
profit   Scan one or more sequences with a simple frequency matrix
prophecy Create frequency matrix or profile from a multiple alignment
prophet  Scan one or more sequences with a Gribskov or Henikoff profile

NUCLEIC PROPERTIES
banana   Plot bending and curvature data for B-DNA
btwisted Calculate the twisting in a B-DNA sequence
dan      Calculates nucleic acid melting temperature
vrnaheat RNA melting

NUCLEIC REPEATS
einverted    Finds inverted repeats in nucleotide sequences
equicktandem Finds tandem repeats in nucleotide sequences
etandem      Finds tandem repeats in a nucleotide sequence
palindrome   Finds inverted repeats in nucleotide sequence(s)

NUCLEIC RESTRICTION
recoder  Find restriction sites to remove (mutate) with no translation change
redata   Retrieve information from REBASE restriction enzyme database
remap    Display restriction enzyme binding sites in a nucleotide sequence
restover Find restriction enzymes producing a specific overhang
restrict Report restriction enzyme cleavage sites in a nucleotide sequence
showseq  Displays sequences with features in pretty format
silent   Find restriction sites to insert (mutate) with no translation change

NUCLEIC RNA FOLDING
ovrnaalifold    RNA alignment folding
ovrnaalifoldpf  RNA alignment folding with partition
ovrnacofold     RNA cofolding
ovrnacofoldconc RNA cofolding with concentrations
ovrnacofoldpf   RNA cofolding with partitioning
ovrnadistance   RNA distances
ovrnaduplex     RNA duplex calculation
ovrnaeval       RNA eval
ovrnaevalpair   RNA eval with cofold
ovrnafold       Calculate secondary structures of RNAs
ovrnafoldpf     Secondary structures of RNAs with partition
ovrnaheat       RNA melting
ovrnainverse    RNA sequences matching a structure
ovrnalfold      Calculate locally stable secondary structures of RNAs
ovrnaplot       Plot vrnafold output
ovrnasubopt     Calculate RNA suboptimals
vrna2dfold      Structures and samples of k,l neighbourhoods
vrnaaliduplex   RNA duplex calculation for two sequence alignments
vrnaalifold     RNA alignment folding
vrnaalifoldpf   RNA alignment folding with partition
vrnacofold      RNA cofolding
vrnacofoldconc  RNA cofolding with concentrations
vrnacofoldpf    RNA cofolding with partitioning
vrnadistance    RNA distances
vrnaduplex      RNA duplex calculation
vrnaeval        RNA eval
vrnaevalpair    RNA eval with cofold
vrnafold        Calculate secondary structures of RNAs
vrnafoldpf      Secondary structures of RNAs with partition
vrnaheat        RNA melting
vrnainverse     RNA sequences matching a structure
vrnalalifoldpf  Locally stable 2ry structures for a set of aligned RNAs
vrnalfold       Calculate locally stable secondary structures of RNAs
vrnalfoldz      Locally stable secondary structures of RNAs plus zscore
vrnapkplex      RNA structures plus pseudoknots
vrnaplfold      Locally stable RNA 2ry structures - pair probabilities
vrnaplot        Plot vrnafold output
vrnasubopt      Calculate RNA suboptimals

NUCLEIC TRANSCRIPTION
jaspscan Scans DNA sequences for transcription factors
marscan  Finds matrix/scaffold recognition (MRS) signatures in DNA sequences
tfscan   Identify transcription factor binding sites in DNA sequences

NUCLEIC TRANSLATION
backtranambig Back-translate a protein sequence to ambiguous nucleotide sequence
backtranseq   Back-translate a protein sequence to a nucleotide sequence
checktrans    Reports STOP codons and ORF statistics of a protein
coderet       Extract CDS, mRNA and translations from feature tables
plotorf       Plot potential open reading frames in a nucleotide sequence
prettyseq     Write a nucleotide sequence and its translation to file
remap         Display restriction enzyme binding sites in a nucleotide sequence
showorf       Display a nucleotide sequence and translation in pretty format
showseq       Displays sequences with features in pretty format
sixpack       Display a DNA sequence with 6-frame translation and ORFs
transeq       Translate nucleic acid sequences

ONTOLOGY
ontocount       Count ontology term(s)
ontoget         Get ontology term(s)
ontogetcommon   Get common ancestor for terms
ontogetdown     Get ontology term(s) by parent id
ontogetobsolete Get ontology ontology terms
ontogetroot     Get ontology root terms by child identifier
ontogetsibs     Get ontology term(s) by id with common parent
ontogetup       Get ontology term(s) by id of child
ontoisobsolete  Report whether an ontology term id is obsolete
ontotext        Get ontology term(s) original full text

ONTOLOGY EDAM
drfinddata     Find public databases by data type
drfindformat   Find public databases by format
drfindid       Find public databases by identifier
drfindresource Find public databases by resource
edamdef        Find EDAM ontology terms by definition
edamhasinput   Find EDAM ontology terms by has_input relation
edamhasoutput  Find EDAM ontology terms by has_output relation
edamisformat   Find EDAM ontology terms by is_format_of relation
edamisid       Find EDAM ontology terms by is_identifier_of relation
edamname       Find EDAM ontology terms by name
wossdata       Finds programs by EDAM data
wossinput      Finds programs by EDAM input data
wossoperation  Finds programs by EDAM operation
wossoutput     Finds programs by EDAM output data
wossparam      Finds programs by EDAM parameter
wosstopic      Finds programs by EDAM topic

ONTOLOGY GO
godef  Find GO ontology terms by definition
goname Find GO ontology terms by name

ONTOLOGY TAXONOMY
taxget        Get taxon(s)
taxgetdown    Get descendants of taxon(s)
taxgetrank    Get parents of taxon(s)
taxgetspecies Get all species under taxon(s)
taxgetup      Get parents of taxon(s)

PHYLOGENY CONSENSUS
econsense     Majority-rule and strict consensus tree
fconsense     Majority-rule and strict consensus tree
ftreedist     Distances between trees
ftreedistpair Distances between two sets of trees

PHYLOGENY CONTINUOUS CHARACTERS
econtml   Continuous character Maximum Likelihood method
econtrast Continuous character contrasts
fcontrast Continuous character Contrasts

PHYLOGENY DISCRETE CHARACTERS
eclique   Largest clique program
edollop   Dollo and polymorphism parsimony algorithm
edolpenny Penny algorithm Dollo or polymorphism
efactor   Multistate to binary recoding program
emix      Mixed parsimony algorithm
epenny    Penny algorithm, branch-and-bound
fclique   Largest clique program
fdollop   Dollo and polymorphism parsimony algorithm
fdolpenny Penny algorithm Dollo or polymorphism
ffactor   Multistate to binary recoding program
fmix      Mixed parsimony algorithm
fmove     Interactive mixed method parsimony
fpars     Discrete character parsimony
fpenny    Penny algorithm, branch-and-bound

PHYLOGENY DISTANCE MATRIX
efitch    Fitch-Margoliash and Least-Squares Distance Methods
ekitsch   Fitch-Margoliash method with contemporary tips
eneighbor Phylogenies from distance matrix by N-J or UPGMA method
ffitch    Fitch-Margoliash and Least-Squares Distance Methods
fkitsch   Fitch-Margoliash method with contemporary tips
fneighbor Phylogenies from distance matrix by N-J or UPGMA method

PHYLOGENY GENE FREQUENCIES
egendist Genetic Distance Matrix program
fcontml  Gene frequency and continuous character Maximum Likelihood
fgendist Compute genetic distances from gene frequencies

PHYLOGENY MOLECULAR SEQUENCE
distmat     Create a distance matrix from a multiple sequence alignment
ednacomp    DNA compatibility algorithm
ednadist    Nucleic acid sequence Distance Matrix program
ednainvar   Nucleic acid sequence Invariants method
ednaml      Phylogenies from nucleic acid Maximum Likelihood
ednamlk     Phylogenies from nucleic acid Maximum Likelihood with clock
ednapars    DNA parsimony algorithm
ednapenny   Penny algorithm for DNA
eprotdist   Protein distance algorithm
eprotpars   Protein parsimony algorithm
erestml     Restriction site Maximum Likelihood method
eseqboot    Bootstrapped sequences algorithm
fdiscboot   Bootstrapped discrete sites algorithm
fdnacomp    DNA compatibility algorithm
fdnadist    Nucleic acid sequence Distance Matrix program
fdnainvar   Nucleic acid sequence Invariants method
fdnaml      Estimates nucleotide phylogeny by maximum likelihood
fdnamlk     Estimates nucleotide phylogeny by maximum likelihood
fdnamove    Interactive DNA parsimony
fdnapars    DNA parsimony algorithm
fdnapenny   Penny algorithm for DNA
fdolmove    Interactive Dollo or Polymorphism Parsimony
ffreqboot   Bootstrapped genetic frequencies algorithm
fproml      Protein phylogeny by maximum likelihood
fpromlk     Protein phylogeny by maximum likelihood
fprotdist   Protein distance algorithm
fprotpars   Protein parsimony algorithm
frestboot   Bootstrapped restriction sites algorithm
frestdist   Distance matrix from restriction sites or fragments
frestml     Restriction site maximum Likelihood method
fseqboot    Bootstrapped sequences algorithm
fseqbootall Bootstrapped sequences algorithm

PHYLOGENY TREE DRAWING
fdrawgram Plots a cladogram- or phenogram-like rooted tree diagram
fdrawtree Plots an unrooted tree diagram
fretree   Interactive tree rearrangement

PROTEIN 2D STRUCTURE
garnier        Predicts protein secondary structure using GOR method
helixturnhelix Identify nucleic acid-binding motifs in protein sequences
pepcoil        Predicts coiled coil regions in protein sequences
pepnet         Draw a helical net for a protein sequence
pepwheel       Draw a helical wheel diagram for a protein sequence

PROTEIN 3D STRUCTURE
contacts   Generate intra-chain CON files from CCF files
domainrep  Reorder DCF file to identify representative structures
domainreso Remove low resolution domains from a DCF file
interface  Generate inter-chain CON files from CCF files
psiphi     Calculates phi and psi torsion angles from protein coordinates

PROTEIN COMPOSITION
backtranambig Back-translate a protein sequence to ambiguous nucleotide sequence
backtranseq   Back-translate a protein sequence to a nucleotide sequence
compseq       Calculate the composition of unique words in sequences
emowse        Search protein sequences by digest fragment molecular weight
freak         Generate residue/base frequency table or plot
mwcontam      Find weights common to multiple molecular weights files
mwfilter      Filter noisy data from molecular weights file
oddcomp       Identify proteins with specified sequence word composition
pepdigest     Reports on protein proteolytic enzyme or reagent cleavage sites
pepinfo       Plot amino acid properties of a protein sequence in parallel
pepstats      Calculates statistics of protein properties
wordcount     Count and extract unique words in molecular sequence(s)

PROTEIN DOMAINS
cathparse      Generates DCF file from raw CATH files
domainalign    Generate alignments (DAF file) for nodes in a DCF file
domainnr       Removes redundant domains from a DCF file
domainrep      Reorder DCF file to identify representative structures
domainseqs     Adds sequence records to a DCF file
domainsse      Add secondary structure records to a DCF file
helixturnhelix Identify nucleic acid-binding motifs in protein sequences
libgen         Generate discriminating elements from alignments
matgen3d       Generate a 3D-1D scoring matrix from CCF files
pepcoil        Predicts coiled coil regions in protein sequences
rocon          Generates a hits file from comparing two DHF files
rocplot        Performs ROC analysis on hits files
scopparse      Generate DCF file from raw SCOP files
seqalign       Extend alignments (DAF file) with sequences (DHF file)
seqfraggle     Removes fragment sequences from DHF files
seqsort        Remove ambiguous classified sequences from DHF files
seqwords       Generates DHF files from keyword search of UniProt
ssematch       Search a DCF file for secondary structure matches

PROTEIN FUNCTIONAL SITES
echlorop  Reports presence of chloroplast transit peptides
elipop    Prediction of lipoproteins
esignalp  Reports protein signal cleavage sites
etmhmm    Reports transmembrane helices
sigcleave Reports on signal cleavage sites in a protein sequence
siggenlig Generates ligand-binding signatures from a CON file
sigscan   Generates hits (DHF file) from a signature search
tmap      Predict and plot transmembrane segments in protein sequences
topo      Draws an image of a transmembrane protein

PROTEIN MODIFICATIONS
enetnglyc Reports N-glycosylation sites in human proteins
enetoglyc Reports mucin type GalNAc O-glycosylation sites in mammalian proteins
enetphos  Reports ser, thr and tyr phosphorylation sites in eukaryotic proteins
eprop     Reports propeptide cleavage sites in proteins
esignalp  Reports protein signal cleavage sites
eyinoyang Reports O-(beta)-GlcNAc attachment sites

PROTEIN MOTIFS
antigenic    Finds antigenic sites in proteins
eiprscan     Motif detection
elipop       Prediction of lipoproteins
emast        Motif detection
ememe        Multiple EM for Motif Elicitation
ememetext    Multiple EM for Motif Elicitation. Text file only
epestfind    Finds PEST motifs as potential proteolytic cleavage sites
fuzzpro      Search for patterns in protein sequences
fuzztran     Search for patterns in protein sequences (translated)
omeme        Motif detection
patmatdb     Searches protein sequences with a sequence motif
patmatmotifs Scan a protein sequence with motifs from the PROSITE database
preg         Regular expression search of protein sequence(s)
pscan        Scans protein sequence(s) with fingerprints from the PRINTS database
sigcleave    Reports on signal cleavage sites in a protein sequence

PROTEIN MUTATION
msbar      Mutate a sequence
shuffleseq Shuffles a set of sequences maintaining composition

PROTEIN PROFILES
profit     Scan one or more sequences with a simple frequency matrix
prophecy   Create frequency matrix or profile from a multiple alignment
prophet    Scan one or more sequences with a Gribskov or Henikoff profile
seqsearch  Generate PSI-BLAST hits (DHF file) from a DAF file
siggen     Generates a sparse protein signature from an alignment
siggenlig  Generates ligand-binding signatures from a CON file
sigscan    Generates hits (DHF file) from a signature search
sigscanlig Searches ligand-signature library and writes hits (LHF file)

PROTEIN PROPERTIES
charge       Draw a protein charge plot
hmoment      Calculate and plot hydrophobic moment for protein sequence(s)
iep          Calculate the isoelectric point of proteins
octanol      Draw a White-Wimley protein hydropathy plot
pepinfo      Plot amino acid properties of a protein sequence in parallel
pepstats     Calculates statistics of protein properties
pepwindow    Draw a hydropathy plot for a protein sequence
pepwindowall Draw Kyte-Doolittle hydropathy plot for a protein alignment

TEST
crystalball Answers every drug discovery question about a sequence

UTILS
embossdata    Find and retrieve EMBOSS data files
embossversion Reports the current EMBOSS version number

UTILS DATABASE CREATION
aaindexextract Extract amino acid property data from AAINDEX
allversusall   Sequence similarity data from all-versus-all comparison
cathparse      Generates DCF file from raw CATH files
cutgextract    Extract codon usage tables from CUTG database
domainer       Generates domain CCF files from protein CCF files
domainnr       Removes redundant domains from a DCF file
domainseqs     Adds sequence records to a DCF file
domainsse      Add secondary structure records to a DCF file
hetparse       Converts heterogen group dictionary to EMBL-like format
jaspextract    Extract data from JASPAR
pdbparse       Parses PDB files and writes protein CCF files
pdbplus        Add accessibility and secondary structure to a CCF file
pdbtosp        Convert swissprot:PDB codes file to EMBL-like format
printsextract  Extract data from PRINTS database for use by pscan
prosextract    Processes the PROSITE motif database for use by patmatmotifs
rebaseextract  Process the REBASE database for use by restriction enzyme applications
scopparse      Generate DCF file from raw SCOP files
seqnr          Removes redundancy from DHF files
sites          Generate residue-ligand CON files from CCF files
ssematch       Search a DCF file for secondary structure matches
tfextract      Process TRANSFAC transcription factor database for use by tfscan

UTILS DATABASE INDEXING
dbiblast      Index a BLAST database
dbifasta      Index a fasta file database
dbiflat       Index a flat file database
dbigcg        Index a GCG formatted database
dbxcompress   Compress an uncompressed dbx index
dbxedam       Index the EDAM ontology using b+tree indices
dbxfasta      Index a fasta file database using b+tree indices
dbxflat       Index a flat file database using b+tree indices
dbxgcg        Index a GCG formatted database using b+tree indices
dbxobo        Index an obo ontology using b+tree indices
dbxreport     Validate index and report internals for dbx databases
dbxresource   Index a data resource catalogue using b+tree indices
dbxstat       Dump statistics for dbx databases
dbxtax        Index NCBI taxonomy using b+tree indices
dbxuncompress Uncompress a compressed dbx index


Example 3

Display an alphabetic listing of all programs:


% wossname -search "" -alphabetic 
Finds programs by keywords in their short description

ALPHABETIC LIST OF PROGRAMS
aaindexextract   Extract amino acid property data from AAINDEX
abiview          Display the trace in an ABI sequencer file
acdc             Test an application ACD file
acdpretty        Correctly reformat an application ACD file
acdtable         Generate an HTML table of parameters from an application ACD file
acdtrace         Trace processing of an application ACD file (for testing)
acdvalid         Validate an application ACD file
aligncopy        Reads and writes alignments
aligncopypair    Reads and writes pairs from alignments
allversusall     Sequence similarity data from all-versus-all comparison
antigenic        Finds antigenic sites in proteins
backtranambig    Back-translate a protein sequence to ambiguous nucleotide sequence
backtranseq      Back-translate a protein sequence to a nucleotide sequence
banana           Plot bending and curvature data for B-DNA
biosed           Replace or delete sequence sections
btwisted         Calculate the twisting in a B-DNA sequence
cachedas         Generates server cache file for DAS servers or for the DAS registry
cachedbfetch     Generates server cache file for Dbfetch/WSDbfetch data sources
cacheebeyesearch Generates server cache file for EB-eye search domains
cacheensembl     Generates server cache file for an Ensembl server
cai              Calculate codon adaptation index
cathparse        Generates DCF file from raw CATH files
chaos            Draw a chaos game representation plot for a nucleotide sequence
charge           Draw a protein charge plot
checktrans       Reports STOP codons and ORF statistics of a protein
chips            Calculates Nc codon usage statistic
cirdna           Draws circular maps of DNA constructs
codcmp           Codon usage table comparison
codcopy          Copy and reformat a codon usage table
coderet          Extract CDS, mRNA and translations from feature tables
compseq          Calculate the composition of unique words in sequences
cons             Create a consensus sequence from a multiple alignment
consambig        Create an ambiguous consensus sequence from a multiple alignment
contacts         Generate intra-chain CON files from CCF files
cpgplot          Identify and plot CpG islands in nucleotide sequence(s)
cpgreport        Identify and report CpG-rich regions in nucleotide sequence(s)
crystalball      Answers every drug discovery question about a sequence
cusp             Create a codon usage table from nucleotide sequence(s)
cutgextract      Extract codon usage tables from CUTG database
cutseq           Removes a section from a sequence
dan              Calculates nucleic acid melting temperature
dbiblast         Index a BLAST database
dbifasta         Index a fasta file database
dbiflat          Index a flat file database
dbigcg           Index a GCG formatted database
dbtell           Display information about a public database
dbxcompress      Compress an uncompressed dbx index
dbxedam          Index the EDAM ontology using b+tree indices
dbxfasta         Index a fasta file database using b+tree indices
dbxflat          Index a flat file database using b+tree indices
dbxgcg           Index a GCG formatted database using b+tree indices
dbxobo           Index an obo ontology using b+tree indices
dbxreport        Validate index and report internals for dbx databases
dbxresource      Index a data resource catalogue using b+tree indices
dbxstat          Dump statistics for dbx databases
dbxtax           Index NCBI taxonomy using b+tree indices
dbxuncompress    Uncompress a compressed dbx index
degapseq         Removes non-alphabetic (e.g. gap) characters from sequences
density          Draw a nucleic acid density plot
descseq          Alter the name or description of a sequence
diffseq          Compare and report features of two similar sequences
distmat          Create a distance matrix from a multiple sequence alignment
domainalign      Generate alignments (DAF file) for nodes in a DCF file
domainer         Generates domain CCF files from protein CCF files
domainnr         Removes redundant domains from a DCF file
domainrep        Reorder DCF file to identify representative structures
domainreso       Remove low resolution domains from a DCF file
domainseqs       Adds sequence records to a DCF file
domainsse        Add secondary structure records to a DCF file
dotmatcher       Draw a threshold dotplot of two sequences
dotpath          Draw a non-overlapping wordmatch dotplot of two sequences
dottup           Displays a wordmatch dotplot of two sequences
dreg             Regular expression search of nucleotide sequence(s)
drfinddata       Find public databases by data type
drfindformat     Find public databases by format
drfindid         Find public databases by identifier
drfindresource   Find public databases by resource
drget            Get data resource entries
drtext           Get data resource entries complete text
echlorop         Reports presence of chloroplast transit peptides
eclique          Largest clique program
econsense        Majority-rule and strict consensus tree
econtml          Continuous character Maximum Likelihood method
econtrast        Continuous character contrasts
edamdef          Find EDAM ontology terms by definition
edamhasinput     Find EDAM ontology terms by has_input relation
edamhasoutput    Find EDAM ontology terms by has_output relation
edamisformat     Find EDAM ontology terms by is_format_of relation
edamisid         Find EDAM ontology terms by is_identifier_of relation
edamname         Find EDAM ontology terms by name
edialign         Local multiple alignment of sequences
ednacomp         DNA compatibility algorithm
ednadist         Nucleic acid sequence Distance Matrix program
ednainvar        Nucleic acid sequence Invariants method
ednaml           Phylogenies from nucleic acid Maximum Likelihood
ednamlk          Phylogenies from nucleic acid Maximum Likelihood with clock
ednapars         DNA parsimony algorithm
ednapenny        Penny algorithm for DNA
edollop          Dollo and polymorphism parsimony algorithm
edolpenny        Penny algorithm Dollo or polymorphism
efactor          Multistate to binary recoding program
efitch           Fitch-Margoliash and Least-Squares Distance Methods
egendist         Genetic Distance Matrix program
ehmmalign        Align sequences to an HMM profile
ehmmbuild        Build a profile HMM from an alignment
ehmmcalibrate    Calibrate HMM search statistics
ehmmconvert      Convert between profile HMM file formats
ehmmemit         Generate sequences from a profile HMM
ehmmfetch        Retrieve an HMM from an HMM database
ehmmindex        Create a binary SSI index for an HMM database
ehmmpfam         Search one or more sequences against an HMM database
ehmmsearch       Search a sequence database with a profile HMM
einverted        Finds inverted repeats in nucleotide sequences
eiprscan         Motif detection
ekitsch          Fitch-Margoliash method with contemporary tips
elipop           Prediction of lipoproteins
emast            Motif detection
embossdata       Find and retrieve EMBOSS data files
embossversion    Reports the current EMBOSS version number
ememe            Multiple EM for Motif Elicitation
ememetext        Multiple EM for Motif Elicitation. Text file only
emira            MIRA fragment assembly program
emiraest         MIRAest fragment assembly program
emix             Mixed parsimony algorithm
emma             Multiple sequence alignment (ClustalW wrapper)
emnu             Simple menu of EMBOSS applications
emowse           Search protein sequences by digest fragment molecular weight
eneighbor        Phylogenies from distance matrix by N-J or UPGMA method
enetnglyc        Reports N-glycosylation sites in human proteins
enetoglyc        Reports mucin type GalNAc O-glycosylation sites in mammalian proteins
enetphos         Reports ser, thr and tyr phosphorylation sites in eukaryotic proteins
entret           Retrieves sequence entries from flatfile databases and files
eomega           Multiple sequence alignment (ClustalO wrapper)
eomegapp         Profile with profile (ClustalO wrapper)
eomegash         Sequence with HMM (ClustalO wrapper)
eomegasp         Sequence with profile (ClustalO wrapper)
epenny           Penny algorithm, branch-and-bound
epestfind        Finds PEST motifs as potential proteolytic cleavage sites
eprimer3         Picks PCR primers and hybridization oligos
eprimer32        Picks PCR primers and hybridization oligos
eprop            Reports propeptide cleavage sites in proteins
eprotdist        Protein distance algorithm
eprotpars        Protein parsimony algorithm
equicktandem     Finds tandem repeats in nucleotide sequences
erestml          Restriction site Maximum Likelihood method
eseqboot         Bootstrapped sequences algorithm
esignalp         Reports protein signal cleavage sites
esim4            Align an mRNA to a genomic DNA sequence
est2genome       Align EST sequences to genomic DNA sequence
etandem          Finds tandem repeats in a nucleotide sequence
etmhmm           Reports transmembrane helices
extractalign     Extract regions from a sequence alignment
extractfeat      Extract features from sequence(s)
extractseq       Extract regions from a sequence
eyinoyang        Reports O-(beta)-GlcNAc attachment sites
fclique          Largest clique program
fconsense        Majority-rule and strict consensus tree
fcontml          Gene frequency and continuous character Maximum Likelihood
fcontrast        Continuous character Contrasts
fdiscboot        Bootstrapped discrete sites algorithm
fdnacomp         DNA compatibility algorithm
fdnadist         Nucleic acid sequence Distance Matrix program
fdnainvar        Nucleic acid sequence Invariants method
fdnaml           Estimates nucleotide phylogeny by maximum likelihood
fdnamlk          Estimates nucleotide phylogeny by maximum likelihood
fdnamove         Interactive DNA parsimony
fdnapars         DNA parsimony algorithm
fdnapenny        Penny algorithm for DNA
fdollop          Dollo and polymorphism parsimony algorithm
fdolmove         Interactive Dollo or Polymorphism Parsimony
fdolpenny        Penny algorithm Dollo or polymorphism
fdrawgram        Plots a cladogram- or phenogram-like rooted tree diagram
fdrawtree        Plots an unrooted tree diagram
featcopy         Reads and writes a feature table
featreport       Reads and writes a feature table
feattext         Return a feature table original text
ffactor          Multistate to binary recoding program
ffitch           Fitch-Margoliash and Least-Squares Distance Methods
ffreqboot        Bootstrapped genetic frequencies algorithm
fgendist         Compute genetic distances from gene frequencies
findkm           Calculate and plot enzyme reaction data
fkitsch          Fitch-Margoliash method with contemporary tips
fmix             Mixed parsimony algorithm
fmove            Interactive mixed method parsimony
fneighbor        Phylogenies from distance matrix by N-J or UPGMA method
fpars            Discrete character parsimony
fpenny           Penny algorithm, branch-and-bound
fproml           Protein phylogeny by maximum likelihood
fpromlk          Protein phylogeny by maximum likelihood
fprotdist        Protein distance algorithm
fprotpars        Protein parsimony algorithm
freak            Generate residue/base frequency table or plot
frestboot        Bootstrapped restriction sites algorithm
frestdist        Distance matrix from restriction sites or fragments
frestml          Restriction site maximum Likelihood method
fretree          Interactive tree rearrangement
fseqboot         Bootstrapped sequences algorithm
fseqbootall      Bootstrapped sequences algorithm
ftreedist        Distances between trees
ftreedistpair    Distances between two sets of trees
fuzznuc          Search for patterns in nucleotide sequences
fuzzpro          Search for patterns in protein sequences
fuzztran         Search for patterns in protein sequences (translated)
garnier          Predicts protein secondary structure using GOR method
geecee           Calculate fractional GC content of nucleic acid sequences
getorf           Finds and extracts open reading frames (ORFs)
godef            Find GO ontology terms by definition
goname           Find GO ontology terms by name
helixturnhelix   Identify nucleic acid-binding motifs in protein sequences
hetparse         Converts heterogen group dictionary to EMBL-like format
hmoment          Calculate and plot hydrophobic moment for protein sequence(s)
iep              Calculate the isoelectric point of proteins
infoalign        Display basic information about a multiple sequence alignment
infobase         Return information on a given nucleotide base
inforesidue      Return information on a given amino acid residue
infoseq          Display basic information about sequences
interface        Generate inter-chain CON files from CCF files
isochore         Plots isochores in DNA sequences
jaspextract      Extract data from JASPAR
jaspscan         Scans DNA sequences for transcription factors
libgen           Generate discriminating elements from alignments
lindna           Draws linear maps of DNA constructs
listor           Write a list file of the logical OR of two sets of sequences
makenucseq       Create random nucleotide sequences
makeprotseq      Create random protein sequences
marscan          Finds matrix/scaffold recognition (MRS) signatures in DNA sequences
maskambignuc     Masks all ambiguity characters in nucleotide sequences with N
maskambigprot    Masks all ambiguity characters in protein sequences with X
maskfeat         Write a sequence with masked features
maskseq          Write a sequence with masked regions
matcher          Waterman-Eggert local alignment of two sequences
matgen3d         Generate a 3D-1D scoring matrix from CCF files
megamerger       Merge two large overlapping DNA sequences
merger           Merge two overlapping sequences
msbar            Mutate a sequence
mse              Multiple Sequence Editor
mwcontam         Find weights common to multiple molecular weights files
mwfilter         Filter noisy data from molecular weights file
needle           Needleman-Wunsch global alignment of two sequences
needleall        Many-to-many pairwise alignments of two sequence sets
newcpgreport     Identify CpG islands in nucleotide sequence(s)
newcpgseek       Identify and report CpG-rich regions in nucleotide sequence(s)
newseq           Create a sequence file from a typed-in sequence
nohtml           Remove mark-up (e.g. HTML tags) from an ASCII text file
noreturn         Remove carriage return from ASCII files
nospace          Remove whitespace from an ASCII text file
notab            Replace tabs with spaces in an ASCII text file
notseq           Write to file a subset of an input stream of sequences
nthseq           Write to file a single sequence from an input stream of sequences
nthseqset        Reads and writes (returns) one set of sequences from many
oalistat         Statistics for multiple alignment files
octanol          Draw a White-Wimley protein hydropathy plot
oddcomp          Identify proteins with specified sequence word composition
ohmmalign        Align sequences with an HMM
ohmmbuild        Build HMM
ohmmcalibrate    Calibrate a hidden Markov model
ohmmconvert      Convert between HMM formats
ohmmemit         Extract HMM sequences
ohmmfetch        Extract HMM from a database
ohmmindex        Index an HMM database
ohmmpfam         Align single sequence with an HMM
ohmmsearch       Search sequence database with an HMM
omeme            Motif detection
ontocount        Count ontology term(s)
ontoget          Get ontology term(s)
ontogetcommon    Get common ancestor for terms
ontogetdown      Get ontology term(s) by parent id
ontogetobsolete  Get ontology ontology terms
ontogetroot      Get ontology root terms by child identifier
ontogetsibs      Get ontology term(s) by id with common parent
ontogetup        Get ontology term(s) by id of child
ontoisobsolete   Report whether an ontology term id is obsolete
ontotext         Get ontology term(s) original full text
ovrnaalifold     RNA alignment folding
ovrnaalifoldpf   RNA alignment folding with partition
ovrnacofold      RNA cofolding
ovrnacofoldconc  RNA cofolding with concentrations
ovrnacofoldpf    RNA cofolding with partitioning
ovrnadistance    RNA distances
ovrnaduplex      RNA duplex calculation
ovrnaeval        RNA eval
ovrnaevalpair    RNA eval with cofold
ovrnafold        Calculate secondary structures of RNAs
ovrnafoldpf      Secondary structures of RNAs with partition
ovrnaheat        RNA melting
ovrnainverse     RNA sequences matching a structure
ovrnalfold       Calculate locally stable secondary structures of RNAs
ovrnaplot        Plot vrnafold output
ovrnasubopt      Calculate RNA suboptimals
palindrome       Finds inverted repeats in nucleotide sequence(s)
pasteseq         Insert one sequence into another
patmatdb         Searches protein sequences with a sequence motif
patmatmotifs     Scan a protein sequence with motifs from the PROSITE database
pdbparse         Parses PDB files and writes protein CCF files
pdbplus          Add accessibility and secondary structure to a CCF file
pdbtosp          Convert swissprot:PDB codes file to EMBL-like format
pepcoil          Predicts coiled coil regions in protein sequences
pepdigest        Reports on protein proteolytic enzyme or reagent cleavage sites
pepinfo          Plot amino acid properties of a protein sequence in parallel
pepnet           Draw a helical net for a protein sequence
pepstats         Calculates statistics of protein properties
pepwheel         Draw a helical wheel diagram for a protein sequence
pepwindow        Draw a hydropathy plot for a protein sequence
pepwindowall     Draw Kyte-Doolittle hydropathy plot for a protein alignment
plotcon          Plot conservation of a sequence alignment
plotorf          Plot potential open reading frames in a nucleotide sequence
polydot          Draw dotplots for all-against-all comparison of a sequence set
preg             Regular expression search of protein sequence(s)
prettyplot       Draw a sequence alignment with pretty formatting
prettyseq        Write a nucleotide sequence and its translation to file
primersearch     Search DNA sequences for matches with primer pairs
printsextract    Extract data from PRINTS database for use by pscan
profit           Scan one or more sequences with a simple frequency matrix
prophecy         Create frequency matrix or profile from a multiple alignment
prophet          Scan one or more sequences with a Gribskov or Henikoff profile
prosextract      Processes the PROSITE motif database for use by patmatmotifs
pscan            Scans protein sequence(s) with fingerprints from the PRINTS database
psiphi           Calculates phi and psi torsion angles from protein coordinates
rebaseextract    Process the REBASE database for use by restriction enzyme applications
recoder          Find restriction sites to remove (mutate) with no translation change
redata           Retrieve information from REBASE restriction enzyme database
remap            Display restriction enzyme binding sites in a nucleotide sequence
restover         Find restriction enzymes producing a specific overhang
restrict         Report restriction enzyme cleavage sites in a nucleotide sequence
revseq           Reverse and complement a nucleotide sequence
rocon            Generates a hits file from comparing two DHF files
rocplot          Performs ROC analysis on hits files
scopparse        Generate DCF file from raw SCOP files
seealso          Finds programs with similar function to a specified program
seqalign         Extend alignments (DAF file) with sequences (DHF file)
seqcount         Reads and counts sequences
seqfraggle       Removes fragment sequences from DHF files
seqmatchall      All-against-all word comparison of a sequence set
seqnr            Removes redundancy from DHF files
seqret           Reads and writes (returns) sequences
seqretsetall     Reads and writes (returns) many sets of sequences
seqretsplit      Reads sequences and writes them to individual files
seqsearch        Generate PSI-BLAST hits (DHF file) from a DAF file
seqsort          Remove ambiguous classified sequences from DHF files
seqwords         Generates DHF files from keyword search of UniProt
seqxref          Retrieve all database cross-references for a sequence entry
seqxrefget       Retrieve all cross-referenced data for a sequence entry
servertell       Display information about a public server
showalign        Display a multiple sequence alignment in pretty format
showdb           Displays information on configured databases
showfeat         Display features of a sequence in pretty format
showorf          Display a nucleotide sequence and translation in pretty format
showpep          Displays protein sequences with features in pretty format
showseq          Displays sequences with features in pretty format
showserver       Displays information on configured servers
shuffleseq       Shuffles a set of sequences maintaining composition
sigcleave        Reports on signal cleavage sites in a protein sequence
siggen           Generates a sparse protein signature from an alignment
siggenlig        Generates ligand-binding signatures from a CON file
sigscan          Generates hits (DHF file) from a signature search
sigscanlig       Searches ligand-signature library and writes hits (LHF file)
silent           Find restriction sites to insert (mutate) with no translation change
sirna            Finds siRNA duplexes in mRNA
sites            Generate residue-ligand CON files from CCF files
sixpack          Display a DNA sequence with 6-frame translation and ORFs
sizeseq          Sort sequences by size
skipredundant    Remove redundant sequences from an input set
skipseq          Reads and writes (returns) sequences, skipping first few
splitsource      Split sequence(s) into original source sequences
splitter         Split sequence(s) into smaller sequences
ssematch         Search a DCF file for secondary structure matches
stretcher        Needleman-Wunsch rapid global alignment of two sequences
stssearch        Search a DNA database for matches with a set of STS primers
supermatcher     Calculate approximate local pair-wise alignments of larger sequences
syco             Draw synonymous codon usage statistic plot for a nucleotide sequence
taxget           Get taxon(s)
taxgetdown       Get descendants of taxon(s)
taxgetrank       Get parents of taxon(s)
taxgetspecies    Get all species under taxon(s)
taxgetup         Get parents of taxon(s)
tcode            Identify protein-coding regions using Fickett TESTCODE statistic
textget          Get text data entries
textsearch       Search the textual description of sequence(s)
tfextract        Process TRANSFAC transcription factor database for use by tfscan
tfm              Displays full documentation for an application
tfscan           Identify transcription factor binding sites in DNA sequences
tmap             Predict and plot transmembrane segments in protein sequences
topo             Draws an image of a transmembrane protein
tranalign        Generate an alignment of nucleic coding regions from aligned proteins
transeq          Translate nucleic acid sequences
trimest          Remove poly-A tails from nucleotide sequences
trimseq          Remove unwanted characters from start and end of sequence(s)
trimspace        Remove extra whitespace from an ASCII text file
twofeat          Finds neighbouring pairs of features in sequence(s)
union            Concatenate multiple sequences into a single sequence
urlget           Get URLs of data resources
vectorstrip      Removes vectors from the ends of nucleotide sequence(s)
vrna2dfold       Structures and samples of k,l neighbourhoods
vrnaaliduplex    RNA duplex calculation for two sequence alignments
vrnaalifold      RNA alignment folding
vrnaalifoldpf    RNA alignment folding with partition
vrnacofold       RNA cofolding
vrnacofoldconc   RNA cofolding with concentrations
vrnacofoldpf     RNA cofolding with partitioning
vrnadistance     RNA distances
vrnaduplex       RNA duplex calculation
vrnaeval         RNA eval
vrnaevalpair     RNA eval with cofold
vrnafold         Calculate secondary structures of RNAs
vrnafoldpf       Secondary structures of RNAs with partition
vrnaheat         RNA melting
vrnainverse      RNA sequences matching a structure
vrnalalifoldpf   Locally stable 2ry structures for a set of aligned RNAs
vrnalfold        Calculate locally stable secondary structures of RNAs
vrnalfoldz       Locally stable secondary structures of RNAs plus zscore
vrnapkplex       RNA structures plus pseudoknots
vrnaplfold       Locally stable RNA 2ry structures - pair probabilities
vrnaplot         Plot vrnafold output
vrnasubopt       Calculate RNA suboptimals
water            Smith-Waterman local alignment of sequences
whichdb          Search all sequence databases for an entry and retrieve it
wobble           Plot third base position variability in a nucleotide sequence
wordcount        Count and extract unique words in molecular sequence(s)
wordfinder       Match large sequences against one or more other sequences
wordmatch        Finds regions of identity (exact matches) of two sequences
wossdata         Finds programs by EDAM data
wossinput        Finds programs by EDAM input data
wossname         Finds programs by keywords in their short description
wossoperation    Finds programs by EDAM operation
wossoutput       Finds programs by EDAM output data
wossparam        Finds programs by EDAM parameter
wosstopic        Finds programs by EDAM topic
yank             Add a sequence reference (a full USA) to a list file


Example 4

Display only the groups that the programs can belong to:


% wossname -search "" -groups 
Finds programs by keywords in their short description

ACD
ALIGNMENT
ALIGNMENT CONSENSUS
ALIGNMENT DIFFERENCES
ALIGNMENT DOT PLOTS
ALIGNMENT GLOBAL
ALIGNMENT LOCAL
ALIGNMENT MULTIPLE
ASSEMBLY FRAGMENT ASSEMBLY
DATA RESOURCES
DATA RETRIEVAL
DATA RETRIEVAL CHEMISTRY DATA
DATA RETRIEVAL FEATURE DATA
DATA RETRIEVAL ONTOLOGY DATA
DATA RETRIEVAL RESOURCE DATA
DATA RETRIEVAL SEQUENCE DATA
DATA RETRIEVAL TEXT DATA
DATA RETRIEVAL TOOL DATA
DATA RETRIEVAL URL DATA
DISPLAY
DOCUMENTATION
EDIT
ENZYME KINETICS
FEATURE TABLES
HMM
MENUS
NUCLEIC 2D STRUCTURE
NUCLEIC CODON USAGE
NUCLEIC COMPOSITION
NUCLEIC CPG ISLANDS
NUCLEIC FUNCTIONAL SITES
NUCLEIC GENE FINDING
NUCLEIC MOTIFS
NUCLEIC MUTATION
NUCLEIC PRIMERS
NUCLEIC PROFILES
NUCLEIC PROPERTIES
NUCLEIC REPEATS
NUCLEIC RESTRICTION
NUCLEIC RNA FOLDING
NUCLEIC TRANSCRIPTION
NUCLEIC TRANSLATION
ONTOLOGY
ONTOLOGY EDAM
ONTOLOGY GO
ONTOLOGY TAXONOMY
PHYLOGENY CONSENSUS
PHYLOGENY CONTINUOUS CHARACTERS
PHYLOGENY DISCRETE CHARACTERS
PHYLOGENY DISTANCE MATRIX
PHYLOGENY GENE FREQUENCIES
PHYLOGENY MOLECULAR SEQUENCE
PHYLOGENY TREE DRAWING
PROTEIN 2D STRUCTURE
PROTEIN 3D STRUCTURE
PROTEIN COMPOSITION
PROTEIN DOMAINS
PROTEIN FUNCTIONAL SITES
PROTEIN MODIFICATIONS
PROTEIN MOTIFS
PROTEIN MUTATION
PROTEIN PROFILES
PROTEIN PROPERTIES
TEST
UTILS
UTILS DATABASE CREATION
UTILS DATABASE INDEXING

Example 5

Output html tags around the list of programs:


% wossname "" -html -out wossname.html 
Finds programs by keywords in their short description

Go to the output files for this example

Command line arguments

Finds programs by keywords in their short description
Version: EMBOSS:6.4.0.0

   Standard (Mandatory) qualifiers:
  [-search]            string     Enter a word or words here and a
                                  case-independent search for it will be made
                                  in the one-line documentation, group names
                                  and keywords of all of the EMBOSS programs.
                                  If no keyword is specified, all programs
                                  will be listed. (Any string)

   Additional (Optional) qualifiers:
   -explode            boolean    [N] The groups that EMBOSS applications
                                  belong to have two forms, exploded and not
                                  exploded. The exploded group names are more
                                  numerous and often vaguely phrased than the
                                  non-exploded ones. The exploded names are
                                  formed from definitions of the group names
                                  that start like NAME1:NAME2 and which are
                                  then expanded into many combinations of the
                                  names as: 'NAME1', 'NAME2', 'NAME1 NAME2',
                                  NAME2 NAME1'. The non-expanded names are
                                  simply like: 'NAME1 NAME2'.
   -[no]allmatch       boolean    [Y] By default, all words in the search
                                  string must match. This option searches for
                                  a match to any word in a list of
                                  possibilities
   -showkeywords       boolean    [N] Show keywords with program documentation
   -outfile            outfile    [stdout] Tool metadata output file
   -html               toggle     [N] If you are sending the output to a file,
                                  this will format it for displaying as a
                                  table in a WWW document.
   -groups             boolean    [N] If you use this option, then only the
                                  group names will be output to the file
   -alphabetic         boolean    [N] If you use this option, then you will
                                  get a single list of the program names and
                                  descriptions instead of the programs being
                                  listed in their functional groups.

   Advanced (Unprompted) qualifiers:
   -[no]emboss         boolean    [Y] If you use this option then EMBOSS
                                  program documentation will be searched. If
                                  this option is set to be false, then only
                                  the EMBASSY programs will be searched (if
                                  the -embassy option is true). EMBASSY
                                  programs are not strictly part of EMBOSS,
                                  but use the same code libraries and share
                                  the same look and feel, but are generally
                                  developed by people who wish the programs to
                                  be outside of the GNU Public Licence scheme
   -[no]embassy        boolean    [Y] If you use this option then EMBASSY
                                  program documentation will be searched. If
                                  this option is set to be false, then only
                                  the EMBOSS programs will be searched (if the
                                  -emboss option is true). EMBASSY programs
                                  are not strictly part of EMBOSS, but use the
                                  same code libraries and share the same look
                                  and feel, but are generally developed by
                                  people who wish the programs to be outside
                                  of the GNU Public Licence scheme
   -showembassy        string     If you use this option then this EMBASSY
                                  package program documentation will be
                                  searched. EMBASSY programs are not strictly
                                  part of EMBOSS, but use the same code
                                  libraries and share the same look and feel,
                                  but are generally developed by people who
                                  wish the programs to be outside of the GNU
                                  Public Licence scheme (Any string)
   -colon              boolean    [N] The groups that EMBOSS applications
                                  belong to up to two levels, for example the
                                  primary group 'ALIGNMENT' has several
                                  sub-groups, or second-level groups, e.g.:
                                  CONSENSUS, DIFFERENCES, DOT PLOTS, GLOBAL,
                                  LOCAL, MULTIPLE. To aid programs that parse
                                  the output of wossname that require the
                                  names of these subgroups, a colon ':' will
                                  be placed between the first and second level
                                  of the group name if this option is true.
                                  Note: This does not apply if the group names
                                  have been exploded with the 'explode'
                                  option.
   -gui                boolean    [N] This option is intended to help those
                                  who are designing Graphical User Interfaces
                                  to the EMBOSS applications. Some EMBOSS
                                  programs are inappropriate for running in a
                                  GUI, these include other menu programs and
                                  interactive editors. This option allows you
                                  to only report those programs that can be
                                  run from a GUI

   Associated qualifiers:

   "-outfile" associated qualifiers
   -odirectory         string     Output directory

   General qualifiers:
   -auto               boolean    Turn off prompts
   -stdout             boolean    Write first file to standard output
   -filter             boolean    Read first file from standard input, write
                                  first file to standard output
   -options            boolean    Prompt for standard and additional values
   -debug              boolean    Write debug output to program.dbg
   -verbose            boolean    Report some/full command line options
   -help               boolean    Report command line options and exit. More
                                  information on associated and general
                                  qualifiers can be found with -help -verbose
   -warning            boolean    Report warnings
   -error              boolean    Report errors
   -fatal              boolean    Report fatal errors
   -die                boolean    Report dying program messages
   -version            boolean    Report version number and exit

Qualifier Type Description Allowed values Default
Standard (Mandatory) qualifiers
[-search]
(Parameter 1)
string Enter a word or words here and a case-independent search for it will be made in the one-line documentation, group names and keywords of all of the EMBOSS programs. If no keyword is specified, all programs will be listed. Any string  
Additional (Optional) qualifiers
-explode boolean The groups that EMBOSS applications belong to have two forms, exploded and not exploded. The exploded group names are more numerous and often vaguely phrased than the non-exploded ones. The exploded names are formed from definitions of the group names that start like NAME1:NAME2 and which are then expanded into many combinations of the names as: 'NAME1', 'NAME2', 'NAME1 NAME2', NAME2 NAME1'. The non-expanded names are simply like: 'NAME1 NAME2'. Boolean value Yes/No No
-[no]allmatch boolean By default, all words in the search string must match. This option searches for a match to any word in a list of possibilities Boolean value Yes/No Yes
-showkeywords boolean Show keywords with program documentation Boolean value Yes/No No
-outfile outfile Tool metadata output file Output file stdout
-html toggle If you are sending the output to a file, this will format it for displaying as a table in a WWW document. Toggle value Yes/No No
-groups boolean If you use this option, then only the group names will be output to the file Boolean value Yes/No No
-alphabetic boolean If you use this option, then you will get a single list of the program names and descriptions instead of the programs being listed in their functional groups. Boolean value Yes/No No
Advanced (Unprompted) qualifiers
-[no]emboss boolean If you use this option then EMBOSS program documentation will be searched. If this option is set to be false, then only the EMBASSY programs will be searched (if the -embassy option is true). EMBASSY programs are not strictly part of EMBOSS, but use the same code libraries and share the same look and feel, but are generally developed by people who wish the programs to be outside of the GNU Public Licence scheme Boolean value Yes/No Yes
-[no]embassy boolean If you use this option then EMBASSY program documentation will be searched. If this option is set to be false, then only the EMBOSS programs will be searched (if the -emboss option is true). EMBASSY programs are not strictly part of EMBOSS, but use the same code libraries and share the same look and feel, but are generally developed by people who wish the programs to be outside of the GNU Public Licence scheme Boolean value Yes/No Yes
-showembassy string If you use this option then this EMBASSY package program documentation will be searched. EMBASSY programs are not strictly part of EMBOSS, but use the same code libraries and share the same look and feel, but are generally developed by people who wish the programs to be outside of the GNU Public Licence scheme Any string  
-colon boolean The groups that EMBOSS applications belong to up to two levels, for example the primary group 'ALIGNMENT' has several sub-groups, or second-level groups, e.g.: CONSENSUS, DIFFERENCES, DOT PLOTS, GLOBAL, LOCAL, MULTIPLE. To aid programs that parse the output of wossname that require the names of these subgroups, a colon ':' will be placed between the first and second level of the group name if this option is true. Note: This does not apply if the group names have been exploded with the 'explode' option. Boolean value Yes/No No
-gui boolean This option is intended to help those who are designing Graphical User Interfaces to the EMBOSS applications. Some EMBOSS programs are inappropriate for running in a GUI, these include other menu programs and interactive editors. This option allows you to only report those programs that can be run from a GUI Boolean value Yes/No No
Associated qualifiers
"-outfile" associated outfile qualifiers
-odirectory string Output directory Any string  
General qualifiers
-auto boolean Turn off prompts Boolean value Yes/No N
-stdout boolean Write first file to standard output Boolean value Yes/No N
-filter boolean Read first file from standard input, write first file to standard output Boolean value Yes/No N
-options boolean Prompt for standard and additional values Boolean value Yes/No N
-debug boolean Write debug output to program.dbg Boolean value Yes/No N
-verbose boolean Report some/full command line options Boolean value Yes/No Y
-help boolean Report command line options and exit. More information on associated and general qualifiers can be found with -help -verbose Boolean value Yes/No N
-warning boolean Report warnings Boolean value Yes/No Y
-error boolean Report errors Boolean value Yes/No Y
-fatal boolean Report fatal errors Boolean value Yes/No Y
-die boolean Report dying program messages Boolean value Yes/No Y
-version boolean Report version number and exit Boolean value Yes/No N

Input file format

wossname reads the brief descriptions and the program groups from the ACD files. (ACD files control the parameters that the programs expect - don't worry about them unless you are writing EMBOSS programs).

The format of ACD files is documented elsewhere.

Output file format

The results are written out as a simple list preceded by the group that the programs belong to or the word that is being searched for.

Output files for usage example 5

File: wossname.html

<h2><a name="ACD">ACD</a></h2> <table border cellpadding=4 bgcolor="#FFFFF0"> <tr><th>Program name</th> <th>Description</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="acdc.html">acdc</a></td> <td>Test an application ACD file</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="acdpretty.html">acdpretty</a></td> <td>Correctly reformat an application ACD file</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="acdtable.html">acdtable</a></td> <td>Generate an HTML table of parameters from an application ACD file</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="acdtrace.html">acdtrace</a></td> <td>Trace processing of an application ACD file (for testing)</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="acdvalid.html">acdvalid</a></td> <td>Validate an application ACD file</td> </tr> </table> <h2><a name="ALIGNMENT">ALIGNMENT</a></h2> <table border cellpadding=4 bgcolor="#FFFFF0"> <tr><th>Program name</th> <th>Description</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="extractalign.html">extractalign</a></td> <td>Extract regions from a sequence alignment</td> </tr> </table> <h2><a name="ALIGNMENT CONSENSUS">ALIGNMENT CONSENSUS</a></h2> <table border cellpadding=4 bgcolor="#FFFFF0"> <tr><th>Program name</th> <th>Description</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="cons.html">cons</a></td> <td>Create a consensus sequence from a multiple alignment</td> </tr> <tr> [Part of this file has been deleted for brevity] <tr> <td><a href="dbxedam.html">dbxedam</a></td> <td>Index the EDAM ontology using b+tree indices</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="dbxfasta.html">dbxfasta</a></td> <td>Index a fasta file database using b+tree indices</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="dbxflat.html">dbxflat</a></td> <td>Index a flat file database using b+tree indices</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="dbxgcg.html">dbxgcg</a></td> <td>Index a GCG formatted database using b+tree indices</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="dbxobo.html">dbxobo</a></td> <td>Index an obo ontology using b+tree indices</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="dbxreport.html">dbxreport</a></td> <td>Validate index and report internals for dbx databases</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="dbxresource.html">dbxresource</a></td> <td>Index a data resource catalogue using b+tree indices</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="dbxstat.html">dbxstat</a></td> <td>Dump statistics for dbx databases</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="dbxtax.html">dbxtax</a></td> <td>Index NCBI taxonomy using b+tree indices</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="dbxuncompress.html">dbxuncompress</a></td> <td>Uncompress a compressed dbx index</td> </tr> </table>

If the -html, -prelink and -postlink qualifiers are specified, then the output will be wrapped in HTML tags, ready for inclusion in a Web page. Note that tags such as <HTML>, <BODY>, </BODY> and </HTML> are not output by this program as the list of programs is expected to form only part of the contents of a web page - the rest of the web page must be supplied by the user.

Data files

As noted above, the program ACD files are searched. The average user will not need to worry about this.

Notes

wossname reads the short descriptions and the program groups from the program ACD files. These file describe the command-line interface of the applications. You don't need to know about them unless you are writing EMBOSS programs. They are described in the EMBOSS Developers Manual.

If a program's ACD file does not specify a program group, then it will be automatically assigned to the group ASSORTED in the output file. A program can belong to more than one group.

References

None.

Warnings

None.

Diagnostic Error Messages

None.

Exit status

It always exits with status 0

Known bugs

None.

See also

Program name Description
seealso Finds programs with similar function to a specified program
tfm Displays full documentation for an application
wossdata Finds programs by EDAM data
wossinput Finds programs by EDAM input data
wossoperation Finds programs by EDAM operation
wossoutput Finds programs by EDAM output data
wossparam Finds programs by EDAM parameter
wosstopic Finds programs by EDAM topic

Author(s)

Gary Williams formerly at:
MRC Rosalind Franklin Centre for Genomics Research Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SB, UK

Please report all bugs to the EMBOSS bug team (emboss-bug © emboss.open-bio.org) not to the original author.

History

Target users

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

Comments

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