DBGET(1e)

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🦋 DBGET(1e) — bestie edition 🦋

okay so this is a page from the EMBOSS Manual for Debian, and it's about a little command called dbget. it's giving "database go-fetch" energy and honestly? we're obsessed.

✨ NAME ✨

dbget — retrieve database entries for a named database, data type and data identifier 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dbget -database string -datatype string -identifier string
      [-outfile outfile] -outdir outdir

dbget -help

like, that's the whole vibe. three required things and a couple of output options, no cap.

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so dbget is a command line program from EMBOSS — aka "the European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite" 👑. it lives in the "Utils:Misc" command group(s), which is basically the miscellaneous drawer where all the useful little tools hang out.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

💜 Input section

  • -database string — the name of a database, straight from the catalogue of public databases in the EMBOSS data file DRCAT.dat. not sure which databases exist? go ask dbfind, she knows. got a database name but you're side-eyeing whether it's even valid? isdbname is your girl.
  • -datatype string — the name of a retrievable datatype, also from the catalogue of public databases in the EMBOSS data file DRCAT.dat. these names are terms from the 'data' branch of the EDAM ontology, http://edamontology.sourceforge.net/ ✨. unsure which retrievable datatypes a given database has? dbtellquery. got a datatype name but not sure it's valid? isdbdata, obviously.
  • -identifier string — a data identifier (like, for example, a sequence accession number, iykyk) that specifies the data (of type 'datatype') you wanna retrieve. not sure which data identifier(s) a given query (database/datatype) uses? dbtellquery again, she's carrying this whole operation fr fr. the types of data identifier are listed under the 'Data identifier' branch of the EDAM ontology (http://edamontology.sourceforge.net/). for example values, peep the catalogue of public databases in the EMBOSS data file DRCAT.dat. got a data identifier but unsure of its type? idtell. slay.

🧚 Required section

(no options here, bestie — the required ones are up in the synopsis doing their main character thing 💅)

🦋 Additional section

(also empty, it's giving minimalist)

🌈 Advanced section

(nothing here either, we love a low-maintenance section)

🍓 Output section

  • -outfile outfile — Default value: stdout
  • -outdir outdir — Default value: .

💀 BUGS 💀

found a bug? not the vibe, but okay. bugs can be reported to the Debian Bug Tracking system (http://bugs.debian.org/emboss), or you can go straight to the EMBOSS developers (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=93650&atid=605031). they'll fix it, periodt.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

dbget is fully documented via the tfm(1) system. go read that if you want the deep lore 🙈

🌸 AUTHOR 🌸

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

  • Wrote the script used to autogenerate this manual page. iconic behavior honestly.

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. 🫶

okay that's the whole page bestie, you're fully caught up 💖

and a lil sign-off for the record: this is EMBOSS 6.4.0, dated 05/11/2012, filed under DBGET(1e). mwah 💅✨

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