WOSSTOPIC(1e)

💖 WOSSTOPIC 💖 — like, the manual page but make it make sense

okay bestie, so this is wosstopic(1e) from the EMBOSS Manual for Debian — and before you ask, yes, it's the one that finds programs by EDAM topic. Buckle up, we're doing this ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

wosstopic — finds programs by EDAM topic

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

wosstopic -identifier string [-explode boolean] [-showkeywords boolean]
          -sensitive boolean -subclasses boolean -obsolete boolean
          -emboss boolean -embassy boolean -showembassy string
          -colon boolean -gui boolean [-outfile outfile] [-html toggle]
          [-groups boolean] [-alphabetic boolean]

wosstopic -help

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

wosstopic is a command line program from EMBOSS — that's "the European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite", no big deal, just the moment 💅 — and it's part of the "Ontology:EDAM,Documentation" command group(s). So it's the group chat of command groups, essentially. Main character energy, fr fr.

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

🍓 Input section 🍓

• -identifier string — this is the one you gotta give it, the topic identifier, the whole point of the operation.

💜 Additional section 💜

• -explode boolean — so here's the tea: the groups that EMBOSS applications belong to come in two forms, exploded and not exploded. The exploded group names are more numerous and honestly kind of vaguely phrased compared to the non-exploded ones. The exploded names get formed from definitions of the group names that start like NAME1:NAME2 and then get expanded into a whole bunch of combinations of the names as: 'NAME1', 'NAME2', 'NAME1 NAME2', NAME2 NAME1'. The non-expanded names are just, like, simply 'NAME1 NAME2'. Default value: N
• -showkeywords boolean — Default value: N

👑 Advanced section 👑

• -sensitive boolean — by default, the query keywords are only matched against the EDAM term names (and synonyms), and nothing else. This option also matches the keywords against the EDAM term definitions, which means it will therefore (typically) report more matches. More matches, more to scroll through, you've been warned. Default value: N
• -subclasses boolean — this extends the query matches to include all terms which are specialisations (EDAM sub-classes) of the matched type. Default value: Y
• -obsolete boolean — the default behaviour is to not use or return obsolete terms, periodt. This option, if set, will include all terms. Default value: N
• -emboss boolean — if you use this option then EMBOSS program documentation will be searched. If this option is set to be false, then only the EMBASSY programs will be searched (if the -embassy option is true). Now real talk: EMBASSY programs are not strictly part of EMBOSS, but they use the same code libraries and share the same look and feel, they're just generally developed by people who wish the programs to be outside of the GNU General Public License scheme. Default value: Y
• -embassy boolean — if you use this option then EMBASSY program documentation will be searched. If this option is set to be false, then only the EMBOSS programs will be searched (if the -emboss option is true). And again, same disclaimer, because it matters: EMBASSY programs are not strictly part of EMBOSS, but use the same code libraries and share the same look and feel, and are generally developed by people who wish the programs to be outside of the GNU General Public License scheme. Default value: Y
• -showembassy string — if you use this option then this EMBASSY package program documentation will be searched. And one more time for the people in the back: EMBASSY programs are not strictly part of EMBOSS, but use the same code libraries and share the same look and feel, and are generally developed by people who wish the programs to be outside of the GNU General Public License scheme.
• -colon boolean — okay so the groups that EMBOSS applications belong to go up to two levels, like for example the primary group 'ALIGNMENT' has several sub-groups, or second-level groups, e.g.: CONSENSUS, DIFFERENCES, DOT PLOTS, GLOBAL, LOCAL, MULTIPLE. To aid programs that parse the output of wossname that need the names of these subgroups, a colon ':' will be placed between the first and second level of the group name if this option is true. > Heads up bestie: this does not apply if the group names have been exploded with the 'explode' option. Default value: N
• -gui boolean — this option is for the girlies designing Graphical User Interfaces to the EMBOSS applications, we love to see it. Some EMBOSS programs are just not it for running in a GUI — those include other menu programs and interactive editors. This option lets you only report those programs that can be run from a GUI. Default value: N

🌈 Output section 🌈

• -outfile outfile — Default value: stdout

🧚 Html section 🧚

• -html toggle — if you're sending the output to a file, this will format it for displaying as a table in a WWW document. Default value: N
• -groups boolean — if you use this option, then only the group names will be output to the file. Just the groups, nothing else, minimalism slay. Default value: N
• -alphabetic boolean — if you use this option, then you'll get a single list of the program names and descriptions instead of the programs being listed in their functional groups. Default value: N

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💀 BUGS 💀

Bugs can be reported to the Debian Bug Tracking system (http://bugs.debian.org/emboss), or directly to the EMBOSS developers (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=93650&atid=605031). Found a bug? Tell someone, don't suffer in silence 🫶

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

wosstopic 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.

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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 thing, bestie 💅✨

This was EMBOSS 6.4.0, dated 05/11/2012 — shoutout to the Debian Med Packaging Team for the autogen script, she ate and left no crumbs 💖 bye pookie 🫶🌸