DBIBLAST(1e)

💅 DBIBLAST — ok bestie, it's giving "index a BLAST database" ✨

So like… this is dbiblast(1e), one of the pages from the EMBOSS Manual for Debian. Yes, the (1e) is real, it's a whole vibe. Sit down, grab a strawberry drink 🍓, and let's talk about indexing BLAST databases.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

dbiblast — index a BLAST database. That's it, that's the whole job. She indexes. She slays. 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

dbiblast -dbname string -directory directory -filenames string
         -release string -date string -seqtype list -blastversion list
         -fields list -exclude string -sortoptions string
         -maxindex integer -systemsort boolean -cleanup boolean
         -sourcefile boolean -outfile outfile -indexoutdir outdir

dbiblast -help

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so dbiblast is a command line program from EMBOSS — and if you didn't know, that stands for "the European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite" (iconic acronym, no notes). 👑

She belongs to the "Utils:Database indexing" command group(s), which is exactly what it sounds like: the girlies who build the indexes. Main character energy, fr fr.

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

💖 Input section 💖

• -dbname string — the database name. No default listed, so bestie, you have to tell her.
• -directory directory — the directory. Default value: . (yes, the humble current directory, she contains multitudes ✨)
• -filenames string — Default value: $(dbname) — so she just copies whatever you passed to -dbname, cute.

🌈 Required section 🌈

These are literally required, not optional, do not skip them:

• -release string — Default value: 0.0
• -date string — Default value: 00/00/00
• -seqtype list — Default value: unknown
• -blastversion list — Default value: unknown

(ngl the defaults for this section are giving "placeholder until you fill me in" 💀 but that's just what the page says.)

🧚 Advanced section 🧚

• -fields list — Default value: acc
• -exclude string — no default, she's mysterious like that 🙈
• -sortoptions string — Sort options, typically -T . to use current directory for work files and -k 1,1 to force GNU sort to use the first field. Default value: -T . -k 1,1
• -maxindex integer — no default given.
• -systemsort boolean — Default value: Y
• -cleanup boolean — Default value: Y
• -sourcefile boolean — no default given.

👑 Output section 👑

• -outfile outfile — the output file. No default listed.
• -indexoutdir outdir — Default value: . (current directory again, she's loyal 🫶)

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💀 BUGS 💀

Found a bug? Bestie, don't suffer in silence. Report it to the Debian Bug Tracking system at http://bugs.debian.org/emboss, or go straight to the EMBOSS developers at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=93650&atid=605031. They want to hear from you, fr fr. 🐛

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🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

dbiblast is fully documented via the tfm(1) system. iykyk. ✨

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

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

• Wrote the script used to autogenerate this manual page. (Not me though — I just added the sparkle. 🎀)

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⭐ COPYRIGHT ⭐

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.

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and that's the whole page, bestie — go index something gorgeous 💅✨

signing off: this was EMBOSS 6.4.0, dated 05/11/2012 — yeah she's an elder but she still ate. periodt. 🫶