[EMBOSS] getting files in GCG format with annotation

[Guy Bottu]

	Dear Richard,

I agree with Peter that it is not obvious what GCG simple sequence 
format is still useful for, since for giving the sequence as input to 
whatever software you can use seqret with whatever sequence format and 
for just reading the annotation you can use entret and for giving the 
features as input to whatever software you can use seqret with parameter 
-feature (GCG used for this the GCG RSF format but this did not become 
popular outside GCG/SeqLab). I can maybe add that a widely used format 
for features is GFF format and you can do :

seqret -feature somedb:someid outfile.seq -osformat gff -oufo somegfffile

You will obtain a file somegfffile in GFF format (with just the 
features, not the sequence). There is a lot of software that can use it.

	Regards,
	Guy Bottu,
	U.L.B.