BP_NRDB(1p)

💖 BP_NRDB(1p) 💖

okay bestie, so this is a User Contributed Perl Documentation page, and it's giving very much "we're about to cook a database" energy. the star of the show is bp_nrdb.PLS — a script that emulates Warren Gish's nrdb, and its whole job is making a unique sequence database out of a bunch of input databases. iconic behavior, honestly. 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

bp_nrdb.PLS — a script to emulate Warren Gish's nrdb, make a unique sequence database from a set of input databases. 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

the vibe, in usage form:

bp_nrdb.PLS [options] file1 file2 file3

and the alternative usage, for when you're feeling extra:

bp_nrdb.PLS -p [options] file1 id1 file2 id2 file3 id3

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so basically, this script creates a unique database of sequences — quasi-nonredundant, as the girlies say. 🧚 it takes your input databases and dedupes them into one glorious little db.

the options are, and I'm gonna read them out one by one because every single one matters:

• -o filename — the filename the db is written to. if you don't say anything, it goes to STDOUT by default, no cap.
• -a filename — the filename to append the db to.
• -l# — the minimum required sequence length. little sequences? not invited to this party. 💀
• -i — do not check for duplicates. yes bestie, you can just... turn the deduping off. wild, I know.
• -n# — the max number of descriptions to report per seq.
• -d# — the delimiter to use between consecutive descriptions. choose your separator, main character energy.
• -p — use database id prefixes from the command line. this is the one that pairs with that alternative usage up in the synopsis. 👑

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Jason Stajich, jason-at-bioperl-dot-org 💜

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and that's the whole page, bestie — this one's running on perl v5.32.1, dated 2021-08-15. go make that unique database, you've got this. 🫶✨💅