| Calling Sequence
| ReadDb(fname)
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| Parameters
| | Name | Type | Description |
|
| fname
| string | sequence database |
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| Return Type
| database |
| Globals
| DB, |
| Synopsis
| The function loads the sequence database located in file.
The contents of file must be in the Darwin ISO-SGML format.
By default, this sequence database is assigned to the system variable
DB unless another variable is specified. This functions allows
filename to specify a path.
If fname ends in ".gz" or ".Z", then it is assumed to
be a compressed file and it is decompressed before reading. |
| Examples
| > DB := ReadDb('/home/darwin/DB/SwissProt.Z'):;
Peptide file(/home/darwin/DB/SP45.0/SwissProt45.0(169638448), 163235
entries, 59631787 aminoacids)
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| See also
| ConsistentGenome, DB, Entry, GenomeSummary, MySql |