showdb

showdb writes out a simple table displaying the names, contents, and available ways to access the sequence databases.

Display information on the currently available databases:

% showdb

Write out the display to a file:

% showdb -outfile showdb.out

Display information on one explicit database:

% showdb -database swissprot

Display information on the databases formatted for inclusion in HTML:

% showdb -html

Display protein databases only:

% showdb -nonucleic

Display the information with no headings:

% showdb -noheading

Display just a list of the available database names:

% showdb -noheading -notype -noid -noquery -noall -nocomment -auto

Display only the names and types:

% showdb -only -type

-database (string): Name of a single database to give information on.
-html (boolean): Format output as an HTML table.
-[no]protein (boolean): Display protein databases.
-[no]nucleic (boolean): Display nucleic acid databases.
-release (boolean): Display "release" column.
-outfile (outfile): If you enter the name of a file here, this program writes the database details into that file.

-only (boolean): This is a way of shortening the command line if you only want a few things to be displayed. Instead of specifying: -nohead -notype -noid -noquery -noall to get only the comment output, you can specify -only -comment.
-heading (boolean): Display column headings.
-type (boolean): Display "type" column.
-id (boolean): Display "id" column.
-query (boolean): Display "qry" column.
-all (boolean): Display "all" column.
-comment (boolean): Display "comment" column.