dbshowdat

Function

Description

dbshowdat displays on-screen information on the possible queries of public databases that return the specified data type. Optionally the information is written to an output file in plain text or HTML.

The catalogue of public databases in the EMBOSS data file db.dat is used.

Usage

Command line arguments


Input file format

Output file format

The output file (plain text format) is an excerpt of and (by default) in the same format as the EMBOSS data file db.dat. The format of the file is explained in comments at the top of that file.

dbshowdat will report information from the EMBOSS data file db.dat including (fields from db.dat are in parentheses): the recommended or official unique identifier ('ID'), the full (verbose english) name ('Name'), URL of the database server ('URL') and description of valid queries ('Query').

If the -html qualifier is specified, then the output will be tabulated in a web page suitable for viewing in any browser.

Data files

The EMBOSS database information file (db.dat) must be installed in the EMBOSS data directory and indexed. This is done automatically for typical installations.

Notes

Optionally the ID of the database and data identifier used in the query may be specified.

References

Warnings

None.

Diagnostic Error Messages

None.

Exit status

It exits with a status of 0.

Known bugs

None.

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