| ## EMBOSS: printsextract

# Program printsextract

## Function

Extract data from PRINTS

## Description

Preprocesses the PRINTS database for use with the program PSCAN.

This program derives matrix information from the final motif sets of the PRINTS data file (prints.dat). It creates files in the EMBOSS data subdirectory PRINTS these being a matrix file and files containing text information for each fingerprint. Running this program may be the job of your system manager.

## Usage

Here is a sample session with printsextract.

    % printsextract
    Full pathname of PRINTS.DAT: /data/prints/prints.dat

## Command line arguments

       Mandatory qualifiers:
      [-inf]               infile     Full pathname of prints.dat

       Optional qualifiers: (none)
       Advanced qualifiers: (none)
       General qualifiers:
      -help                bool       report command line options. More
                                      information on associated and general
                                      qualifiers can be found with -help -verbose

Mandatory qualifiers | Allowed values | Default
--- | --- | ---
[-inf] (Parameter 1) | Full pathname of prints.dat | Input file | Required
Optional qualifiers | Allowed values | Default
(none)
Advanced qualifiers | Allowed values | Default
(none)

## Input file format

The input file must be the "prints.dat" file of a PRINTS distribution.

The PRINTS database is currently available via the anonymous ftp servers at:

- Manchester ftp://bioinf.man.ac.uk/pub/prints/
- EBI ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/
- EMBL ftp://ftp.embl-heidelberg.de/
- NCBI ftp://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

It is also distributed on the EMBL CD-ROMs.

The home page for PRINTS is: http://www.bioinf.man.ac.uk/dbbrowser/PRINTS/

## Output file format

The output files are held in the PRINTS subdirectory of the EMBOSS data directory.

- prints.mat matrices calculated from PRINTS
- Pxxxxx text information for each fingerprint
- embossre.sup Enzyme suppliers

## Data files

The "prints.dat" file of a PRINTS distribution is the input file for this program.

## Notes

You may have to ask your system manager to run this program.

## References

1. Attwood, T.K., Flower, D.R., Lewis, A.P., Mabey, J.E., Morgan, S.R., Scordis, P., Selley, J. and Wright, W. (1999) PRINTS prepares for the new millennium. Nucleic Acids Research, 27(1), 220-225.
2. Attwood, T.K., Beck, M.E., Flower, D.R., Scordis, P. and Selley, J. (1998) The PRINTS protein fingerprint database in its fifth year. Nucleic Acids Research, 26(1), 304-308.
3. Attwood, T.K., Beck, M.E., Bleasby, A.J., Degtyarenko, K., Michie, A.D. and Parry-Smith, D.J. (1997) Novel developments with the PRINTS protein motif fingerprint database. Nucleic Acids Research, 25 (1), 212-216.
4. Attwood, T.K. and Beck, M.E. (1994) PRINTS - A protein motif fingerprint database. Protein Engineering, 7(7), 841-848.
5. Bleasby, A.J., Akrigg, D.A. and Attwood, T.K. (1994) OWL - A non-redundant composite protein sequence database. Nucleic Acids Research, 22(17), 3574-77.
6. Bleasby, A.J. and Wootton, J.C. (1990) Constructing validated, non- redundant composite protein sequence databases. Protein Engineering, 3(3), 153-159.
7. Parry-Smith, D.J. and Attwood, T.K. (1992) ADSP - A new package for computational sequence analysis. CABIOS, 8(5), 451-459.
8. Attwood, T.K. and Findlay, J.B.C. (1994) Fingerprinting G-protein-coupled receptors. Prot.Engng. 7(2), 195-203.
9. Attwood, T.K. and Findlay, J.B.C. (1993) Design of a discriminating finger- print for G-protein-coupled receptors. Prot.Engng. 6(2) 167-176.
10. Akrigg, D., Attwood, T.K., Bleasby, A.J., Findlay, J.B.C, North, A.C.T., Maughan, N.A., Parry-Smith, D.J., Perkins, D.N. and Wootton, J.C. (1992) SERPENT - An information storage and analysis resource for protein sequences. CABIOS 8(3) 295-296.
11. Parry-Smith, D.J. and Attwood, T.K. (1991) SOMAP - A novel interactive approach to multiple protein sequence aligment. CABIOS, 7(2), 233-235.
12. Perkins, D.N. and Attwood, T.K. (1995) VISTAS - A package for VIsualising STructures And Sequences of proteins. J.Mol.Graph., 13, 73-75.
13. Parry-Smith, D.J., Payne, A.W.R, Michie, A.D. and Attwood, T.K. (1998) CINEMA - A novel Colour INteractive Editor for Multiple Alignments. Gene, 211(2), GC45-56.

## Warnings

The program will warn you if the input file is incorrectly formatted.

## Diagnostic Error Messages

None.

## Exit status

It exits with status 0 unless an error is reported.

## Known bugs

None.

## See also

Program name | Description
--- | ---
cutgextract | Extract data from CUTG
domainer | Build domain coordinate files
nrscope | Converts redundant EMBL-format SCOP file to non-redundant one
pdbtosp | Convert raw swissprot:pdb equivalence file to embl-like format
prosextract | Builds the PROSITE motif database for patmatmotifs to search
rebaseextract | Extract data from REBASE
scope | Convert raw scop classification file to embl-like format
scopparse | Reads raw scop classifications file and writes embl-like format scop classification file
seqnr | Converts redundant database results to a non-redundant set of hits
tfextract | Extract data from TRANSFAC

## Author(s)

This application was written by Alan Bleasby (ableasby@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk)

## History

Completed 8th April 1999

## Target users

This program is intended to be used by administrators responsible for software and database installation and maintenance.

## Comments