CONSAMBIG(1e)

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💖 CONSAMBIG 💖

okay bestie, so this one lives in the EMBOSS Manual for Debian, and it's literally called consambig — short for consensus + ambiguous, and no, that's not a typo, that's the whole point. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

consambig — Create an ambiguous consensus sequence from a multiple alignment

Like... it takes a bunch of aligned sequences and squishes them into one consensus sequence, and where the sequences disagree it gets all ambiguous about it. It's giving "I don't want to choose" and honestly? Valid. 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

consambig -sequence seqset -outseq seqout [-name string]

consambig -help

so the first form is the real one, the second one is just for when you're lost (no shame, we've all been there 🫶).

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so consambig is a command line program from EMBOSS — and if you don't know, that stands for "the European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite" 🌈 iconic name, no notes.

It's part of the "Alignment:Consensus" command group(s), so that's its little friend group. That's where it hangs out. That's its vibe. 💖

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

💜 Input section

  • -sequence seqset — File containing a sequence alignment. this is your starting material bestie, the whole multiple alignment, hand it over 🍓

💜 Additional section

okay so this section exists but it's empty — it's giving "reserved for future main character moments", we move on 💀

💜 Output section

  • -outseq seqout — the output sequence file, this is where your gorgeous ambiguous consensus lands 🦋
  • -name string — a name, as a string, for the thing you're making ✨

😭 BUGS 😭

if something's broken (and it happens, we're all human, well — mostly), bugs can be reported to the Debian Bug Tracking system (http://bugs.debian.org/emboss), or you can go straight to the EMBOSS developers themselves (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=93650&atid=605031). go off, tell them everything, they want to know. 🫶

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

consambig is fully documented via the tfm(1) system. so like, if you want the deep lore, that's the door, iykyk. 🚪✨

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Debian Med Packaging Team <debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org>

they wrote the script used to autogenerate this manual page. so technically they wrote this, and i'm just here making it cute. we love a collab. 💖

This manual page was autogenerated from an Ajax Control Definition of the EMBOSS package. It can be redistributed under the same terms as EMBOSS itself.

like, same energy as EMBOSS, same rules, keep it moving. periodt. 💅

aaaand that's the whole page bestie!! 🎀 this one's from EMBOSS 6.4.0, dated 05/11/2012, and it's the CONSAMBIG(1e) page in your manual. go build that ambiguous consensus, you absolute icon. 💖✨🦋

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