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Function

Description

This program takes the name of an existing program in EMBOSS (or a program in one the associated EMBASSY packages) and gives a list of the programs which share some functionality with it.

It does this by noting the functional groups that the program belongs to and reporting any programs which share those functional groups.

The functional groups of a program are set in the ACD file (this is the part of the program in the EMBOSS system which specifies the required parameters, some help on the parameters, the one-line description of the program, etc.) Normally the names of the groups are fairly specific, such as: "NUCLEIC COMPOSITION", resulting in the reporting of only a tightly restricted set of other programs also dealing with the analysis of "NUCLEIC COMPOSITION". The '-explode' qualifier will increase the number of groups that the program belongs to by splitting the group name at selected points to produce such groups as: "NUCLEIC", "NUCLEIC COMPOSITION" and "COMPOSITION". All programs with the exploded group names which also include "NUCLEIC" and "COMPOSITION" will now be reported. The result of this qualifier is thus a report of a larger number of programs with a more tenuous link to the specified program. In other words, use the '-explode' qualifier to decrease the specificity of the search.

The groups that the program belongs to can be output by using the '-groups' qualifier.

Usage

Command line arguments


Input file format

Output file format

The result is header line 'SEE ALSO' then a simple list of program names followed by the one-line description of the program.

If the '-html' qualifier is used, then the result is an HTML-formatted table, lacking the HTML document structures such as <HTML>, <BODY>, </BODY>, </HTML> which the user is expected to provide as the table will usually be included in the middle of a larger HTML document.

Data files

None.

Notes

None.

References

None.

Warnings

None.

Diagnostic Error Messages

The error message:

FATAL ERROR: No application specified.

is output if a non-existent program name is specified.

Exit status

The program exits with exist status '0' unless a non-existent program name is specified, when the exit status is '1'.

Known bugs

None.

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