Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!uunet!ig!daemon From: SYEH@BIONET-20.ARPA Newsgroups: bionet.software.contrib Subject: Re: A POSSIBLE BUG IN XFASTN Message-ID: <5747@ig.ig.com> Date: 4 Apr 88 19:20:44 GMT Sender: daemon@presto.ig.com Lines: 129 From: BIONET Dear Bionet User, I was not able to reproduce your problem with using cutoff values in XFASTN. I have included below a PHOTO session giving an example. Make sure that you respond appropriately to the "How many scores would you like to see ?" prompt. Sincerely, Spencer Yeh ARPAnet: SYeh@bionet-20.arpa or Scientific Consultant bionet@bionet-20.arpa BIONET (for BIONET problems) (415) 324-4363 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [PHOTO: Recording initiated Mon 4-Apr-88 10:06AM] @xfastn fastn [tops-20] searches a nucleotide sequence data bank test sequence file name: sample-10bp.seq library to be searched? (1 GenBank; 2 EMBL) [=1] 1 GENBANK sequence files: 1. Primate 2. Rodent 3. Other Mammalian 4. Other Vertebrate 5. Invertebrate 6. Plant 7. Eukaryotic Organelle 8. Bacterial 9. Structural RNA 10. Viral 11. Phage 12. Synthetic 13. Unannotated GENBANK sequence file number to search? (1 to 13) [=1] 11 ktup? (1 to 6) [=4] ktup set to 4 1. 10BP : DEFINITION Bacteriophage alpha-3 J gene. 2. 20BP : DEFINITION Bacteriophage alpha-3 J gene. sequence to analyze? (1 to 2) [=1]? 1 10BP : 10 NT a 100 percent match with this query sequence has a score of 40 enter a new cutoff value [=25]: 5 sequence may be truncated sequence may be truncated sequence may be truncated sequence may be truncated < 4 24 :============ 8 0 : 12 0 : 16 63 :================================ 20 43 :====================== 24 44 :====================== 28 27 :============== 32 9 :===== 36 4 :== 40 1 := 44 0 : 48 0 : 52 0 : 56 0 : 60 0 : 64 0 : 68 0 : 72 0 : 76 0 : 80 0 : 84 0 : 88 0 : 92 0 : 96 0 : 100 0 : 104 0 : 108 0 : 112 0 : 116 0 : 120 0 : 124 0 : 128 0 : 132 0 : 136 0 : 140 0 : 144 0 : 148 0 : 152 0 : 156 0 : 160 0 : >160 0 : 263498 residues in 215 sequences, mean score: 19.0 (8.24) 191 scores better than 5 saved, ktup: 4, fact: 4 scan time: 0:00:32.39 enter file name for results : temp.results How many scores would you like to see? [=20]? 191 The best scores are: init, opt AL3J : Bacteriophage alpha-3 J gene. 40, 40 PX1 : Bacteriophage phi-X174, complete genome. 36, 36 S13CG : Bacteriophage S13 circular DNA, complete genome. 36, 36 PMUB : Bacteriophage Mu protein B gene, complete cds. 34, 34 PT4PSET : Bacteriophage T4 pseT gene encoding polynucleoti 34, 34 LAMBDAZ : Bacteriophage lambda cI gene 32, 32 sequence may be truncated LAM : Bacteriophage lambda, complete genome. 32, 32 ... PRD1ITR1 : Bacteriophage PRD1 5' inverted terminal repeat. 16, 22 PRD1ITR2 : Bacteriophage PRD1 3' inverted terminal repeat. 16, 16 KU1TR3 : bacteriophage ku1 3'-terminal region rna. 16, 16 PT3TRS1 : bacteriophage t3 5' end, terminally redundant se 16, 24 PT3PRMF : Bacteriophage T3 class III promoter at 54.2% (or 16, 16 PT3PRMA : bacteriophage t3 promoter region, at 16.1% of t3 16, 16 PT3PRMB : bacteriophage t3 promoter region, at 1.2% of t3 16, 16 PR722ITR2 : Bacteriophage PR722 (from E.coli) 3' inverted te 16, 16 Display alignments also [=Yes] no Library scan: 0:00:32.39 total CPU time: 0:01:15.82 @pop [PHOTO: Recording terminated Mon 4-Apr-88 11:25AM] -------