ECOPCRFORMAT(1)

📦 version 1.0.1, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 NAME 💖

ecoPCRFormat — turns your database into the exact format that ecoPCR is expecting, bestie. no cap. 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ecoPCRFormat [option] <argument>

yes queen, options go in, an argument goes in, magic comes out. 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so. ecoPCR is an electronic PCR software built by LECA and Helix-Project (icons, honestly 👑). its whole thing is helping you estimate Barcode primers quality — like, is your primer actually good or is it giving nothing? that's the vibe check it runs. 🔥

and this program, ecoPCRFormat? it belongs to the ecoPCR tools family. it's the little sibling that does the prep work so the main character can shine. 🫶

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -e, --embl — [E]mbl format. feed it EMBL-style data. 🌈
  • -f, --fasta — [F]asta format. feed it FASTA-style data. 💜
  • -g, --genbank — [G]enbank format. feed it GenBank-style data. 🍓
  • -h, --help — [H]elp — print this help. the classic "pls explain urself" flag, we love her. 🙈
  • -n, --name — [N]ame of the new database created. so you can name your baby. 👑
  • -t, --taxonomy — [T]axonomy — path to the taxonomy database.
    • specifically: a bcp-like dump from the GenBank taxonomy database. 🌱
heads up bestie: -t isn't just any random file — it wants a bcp-like dump from the GenBank taxonomy database. don't just point it at anything and hope, fr fr. 😭

anyway that's the whole page, go forth and format your database, you absolute icon. 💖✨

ecoPCRFormat 0.5.0 — June 2015 — mwah, slay, bye bestie 🎀💅🦋

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