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SearchID

Function SearchID


Calling Sequence  SearchID(pat)
Parameters
NameTypeDescription

pat string 
Globals SearchID_DBname, SearchID_table,
Synopsis The SearchID function searches the sequence database currently assigned to system variable DB. It returns an entry data structure which contains at most one exact match of the given argument, pat, with the ID field of the entry. If no match can be found it returns an empty data structure.
Examples
> DB := ReadDb('/home/darwin/DB/SwissProt.Z'):;
Peptide file(/home/darwin/DB/SP45.0/SwissProt45.0(169638448), 163235
 entries, 59631787 aminoacids)
> SearchID(CY2_RHOVI);
<E><ID>CY2_RHOVI</ID><AC>P00083;</AC><DE>Cytochrom ..(1021).. 6</RES></E>
> SearchID(ZZZZ);

See also DB,   SearchAC,   SearchSeqDb,   SearchTag,   Species_Entry