dbxtax
Function
Description
dbxflat indexes NCBI taxonomy files, and builds EMBOSS B+tree
format index files.
These indexes allow access of flat files larger
than 2Gb.
Usage
Command line arguments
Input file format
dbxtax reads and indexes the NCBI taxonomy nodes.dmp,
names.dmp, division.dmp, gencode.dmp,and merged.dmp files.
Output file format
dbxtax creates one summary file for the database and two files
for each field indexed.
- dbalias.ent is the master file containing the names of the files
that have been indexed. It is an ASCII file. This file also contains
the database release and date information.
- dbalias.xid is the B+tree index file for the ID names. It is a binary
file.
- dbalias.pxid is an ASCII file containing information regarding the
structure of the ID name index.
Data files
None.
Notes
None.
References
None.
Warnings
None.
Diagnostic Error Messages
None.
Exit status
It always exits with status 0.
Known bugs
None.
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