yank Wiki The master copies of EMBOSS documentation are available at http://emboss.open-bio.org/wiki/Appdocs on the EMBOSS Wiki. Please help by correcting and extending the Wiki pages. Function Add a sequence reference (a full USA) to a list file Description yank adds the full Uniform Sequence Address (USA) of a specified sequence, or a region (subsequence) of a sequence, to a list file. The file is appended to by default but (optionally) is overwritten.A list file contains one or more sequence references (USAs). For example, a database entry, the name of a file containing sequences, or even the names of another list file. In addition to the name of the sequence, it can write the start and end position of a region within that sequence and, if the sequence is nucleic, if can specify whether the sequence is the reverse complement. Usage Here is a sample session with yank This is an example of adding an entry for the part of tembl:x65921 between positions 1913 and 1915 to the existing list file 'cds.list': % yank Add a sequence reference (a full USA) to a list file Input (gapped) sequence: tembl:x65921 Begin at position [start]: 1913 End at position [end]: 1915 Reverse strand [N]: List of USAs output file [x65921.yank]: cds.list Go to the input files for this example Go to the output files for this example Command line arguments Add a sequence reference (a full USA) to a list file Version: EMBOSS:6.4.0.0 Standard (Mandatory) qualifiers: [-sequence] sequence (Gapped) sequence filename and optional format, or reference (input USA) [-outfile] outfile [*.yank] List of USAs output file Additional (Optional) qualifiers: (none) Advanced (Unprompted) qualifiers: -newfile boolean [N] Overwrite existing output file Associated qualifiers: "-sequence" associated qualifiers -sbegin1 integer Start of the sequence to be used -send1 integer End of the sequence to be used -sreverse1 boolean Reverse (if DNA) -sask1 boolean Ask for begin/end/reverse -snucleotide1 boolean Sequence is nucleotide -sprotein1 boolean Sequence is protein -slower1 boolean Make lower case -supper1 boolean Make upper case -sformat1 string Input sequence format -sdbname1 string Database name -sid1 string Entryname -ufo1 string UFO features -fformat1 string Features format -fopenfile1 string Features file name "-outfile" associated qualifiers -odirectory2 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 Input file format yank reads a single nucleotide or protein sequence. The input is a standard EMBOSS sequence query (also known as a 'USA'). Major sequence database sources defined as standard in EMBOSS installations include srs:embl, srs:uniprot and ensembl Data can also be read from sequence output in any supported format written by an EMBOSS or third-party application. The input format can be specified by using the command-line qualifier -sformat xxx, where 'xxx' is replaced by the name of the required format. The available format names are: gff (gff3), gff2, embl (em), genbank (gb, refseq), ddbj, refseqp, pir (nbrf), swissprot (swiss, sw), dasgff and debug. See: http://emboss.sf.net/docs/themes/SequenceFormats.html for further information on sequence formats. You will be prompted for the start and end positions you wish to use. If the sequence is nucleic, you will be prompted whether you wish to use the reverse complement of the sequence. Input files for usage example 'tembl:x65921' is a sequence entry in the example nucleic acid database 'tembl' Database entry: tembl:x65921 ID X65921; SV 1; linear; genomic DNA; STD; HUM; 2016 BP. XX AC X65921; S45242; XX DT 13-MAY-1992 (Rel. 31, Created) DT 14-NOV-2006 (Rel. 89, Last updated, Version 7) XX DE H.sapiens fau 1 gene XX KW fau 1 gene. XX OS Homo sapiens (human) OC Eukaryota; Metazoa; Chordata; Craniata; Vertebrata; Euteleostomi; Mammalia; OC Eutheria; Euarchontoglires; Primates; Haplorrhini; Catarrhini; Hominidae; OC Homo. XX RN [1] RP 1-2016 RA Kas K.; RT ; RL Submitted (29-APR-1992) to the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ databases. RL K. Kas, University of Antwerp, Dept of Biochemistry T3.22, RL Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Wilrijk, BELGIUM XX RN [2] RP 1-2016 RX DOI; 10.1016/0006-291X(92)91286-Y. RX PUBMED; 1326960. RA Kas K., Michiels L., Merregaert J.; RT "Genomic structure and expression of the human fau gene: encoding the RT ribosomal protein S30 fused to a ubiquitin-like protein"; RL Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 187(2):927-933(1992). XX DR GDB; 191789. DR GDB; 191790. DR GDB; 354872. DR GDB; 4590236. XX FH Key Location/Qualifiers FH FT source 1..2016 FT /organism="Homo sapiens" FT /mol_type="genomic DNA" FT /clone_lib="CML cosmid" FT /clone="15.1" FT /db_xref="taxon:9606" FT mRNA join(408..504,774..856,951..1095,1557..1612,1787..>1912) FT /gene="fau 1" FT exon 408..504 FT /number=1 [Part of this file has been deleted for brevity] FT RAKRRMQYNRRFVNVVPTFGKKKGPNANS" FT intron 857..950 FT /number=2 FT exon 951..1095 FT /number=3 FT intron 1096..1556 FT /number=3 FT exon 1557..1612 FT /number=4 FT intron 1613..1786 FT /number=4 FT exon 1787..>1912 FT /number=5 FT polyA_signal 1938..1943 XX SQ Sequence 2016 BP; 421 A; 562 C; 538 G; 495 T; 0 other; ctaccatttt ccctctcgat tctatatgta cactcgggac aagttctcct gatcgaaaac 60 ggcaaaacta aggccccaag taggaatgcc ttagttttcg gggttaacaa tgattaacac 120 tgagcctcac acccacgcga tgccctcagc tcctcgctca gcgctctcac caacagccgt 180 agcccgcagc cccgctggac accggttctc catccccgca gcgtagcccg gaacatggta 240 gctgccatct ttacctgcta cgccagcctt ctgtgcgcgc aactgtctgg tcccgccccg 300 tcctgcgcga gctgctgccc aggcaggttc gccggtgcga gcgtaaaggg gcggagctag 360 gactgccttg ggcggtacaa atagcaggga accgcgcggt cgctcagcag tgacgtgaca 420 cgcagcccac ggtctgtact gacgcgccct cgcttcttcc tctttctcga ctccatcttc 480 gcggtagctg ggaccgccgt tcaggtaaga atggggcctt ggctggatcc gaagggcttg 540 tagcaggttg gctgcggggt cagaaggcgc ggggggaacc gaagaacggg gcctgctccg 600 tggccctgct ccagtcccta tccgaactcc ttgggaggca ctggccttcc gcacgtgagc 660 cgccgcgacc accatcccgt cgcgatcgtt tctggaccgc tttccactcc caaatctcct 720 ttatcccaga gcatttcttg gcttctctta caagccgtct tttctttact cagtcgccaa 780 tatgcagctc tttgtccgcg cccaggagct acacaccttc gaggtgaccg gccaggaaac 840 ggtcgcccag atcaaggtaa ggctgcttgg tgcgccctgg gttccatttt cttgtgctct 900 tcactctcgc ggcccgaggg aacgcttacg agccttatct ttccctgtag gctcatgtag 960 cctcactgga gggcattgcc ccggaagatc aagtcgtgct cctggcaggc gcgcccctgg 1020 aggatgaggc cactctgggc cagtgcgggg tggaggccct gactaccctg gaagtagcag 1080 gccgcatgct tggaggtgag tgagagagga atgttctttg aagtaccggt aagcgtctag 1140 tgagtgtggg gtgcatagtc ctgacagctg agtgtcacac ctatggtaat agagtacttc 1200 tcactgtctt cagttcagag tgattcttcc tgtttacatc cctcatgttg aacacagacg 1260 tccatgggag actgagccag agtgtagttg tatttcagtc acatcacgag atcctagtct 1320 ggttatcagc ttccacacta aaaattaggt cagaccaggc cccaaagtgc tctataaatt 1380 agaagctgga agatcctgaa atgaaactta agatttcaag gtcaaatatc tgcaactttg 1440 ttctcattac ctattgggcg cagcttctct ttaaaggctt gaattgagaa aagaggggtt 1500 ctgctgggtg gcaccttctt gctcttacct gctggtgcct tcctttccca ctacaggtaa 1560 agtccatggt tccctggccc gtgctggaaa agtgagaggt cagactccta aggtgagtga 1620 gagtattagt ggtcatggtg ttaggacttt ttttcctttc acagctaaac caagtccctg 1680 ggctcttact cggtttgcct tctccctccc tggagatgag cctgagggaa gggatgctag 1740 gtgtggaaga caggaaccag ggcctgatta accttccctt ctccaggtgg ccaaacagga 1800 gaagaagaag aagaagacag gtcgggctaa gcggcggatg cagtacaacc ggcgctttgt 1860 caacgttgtg cccacctttg gcaagaagaa gggccccaat gccaactctt aagtcttttg 1920 taattctggc tttctctaat aaaaaagcca cttagttcag tcatcgcatt gtttcatctt 1980 tacttgcaag gcctcaggga gaggtgtgct tctcgg 2016 // Output file format Output files for usage example File: cds.list tembl-id:X65921[782:856] tembl-id:X65921[951:1095] tembl-id:X65921[1557:1612] tembl-id:X65921[1787:1912] tembl-id:X65921[1913:1915] The output list file can now be read in by a program such as union by specifying the list file as '@cds.list' when union prompts for input. Data files None. Notes There are many ways of specifying input and output sequences for EMBOSS programs, including wildcarded sequence file names, wildcarded database entry names and list files. List files (files of file names) are the most flexible. Instead of containing the sequences themselves, a list file contains one or more sequence references (USAs). For example, a database entry, the name of a file containing sequences, or even the names of another list file. For example, here's a valid list file: opsd_abyko.fasta sw:opsd_xenla sw:opsd_c* @another_list The file contains: * opsd_abyko.fasta - this is the name of a sequence file. The file is read i n from the current directory. * sw:opsd_xenla - this is a reference to a specific sequence in the SwissPro t database * sw:opsd_c* - this represents all the sequences in SwissProt whose identifi ers start with ``opsd_c'' * another_list - this is the name of a second list file Notice the @ in front of the last entry. This is the way you tell EMBOSS that this file is a list file, not a regular sequence file. Without the program yank you would need to use a text editor such as pico to create the appropriate list files. yank makes this process easy. References None. Warnings None. Diagnostic Error Messages None. Exit status It always exits with status 0. Known bugs None. See also Program name Description 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 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) The program extract does not make list files, but creates a sequence from sub-regions of a single other sequence. Author(s) Peter Rice European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK Please report all bugs to the EMBOSS bug team (emboss-bug (c) emboss.open-bio.org) not to the original author. History Written (March 2002) - Peter Rice. Target users This program is intended to be used by everyone and everything, from naive users to embedded scripts. Comments None