
                                 wordcount 



Function

   Counts words of a specified size in a DNA sequence

Description

   Displays all the words of the specified length with the number of
   times it occurs.

Usage

   Here is a sample session with wordcount


% wordcount tembl:rnu68037 -wordsize=3 
Counts words of a specified size in a DNA sequence
Output file [rnu68037.wordcount]: 

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Command line arguments

   Standard (Mandatory) qualifiers:
  [-sequence]          sequence   Sequence USA
   -wordsize           integer    Word size
  [-outfile]           outfile    Output file name

   Additional (Optional) qualifiers: (none)
   Advanced (Unprompted) qualifiers: (none)
   Associated qualifiers:

   "-sequence" associated qualifiers
   -sbegin1            integer    Start of the sequence to be used
   -send1              integer    End of the sequence to be used
   -sreverse1          boolean    Reverse (if DNA)
   -sask1              boolean    Ask for begin/end/reverse
   -snucleotide1       boolean    Sequence is nucleotide
   -sprotein1          boolean    Sequence is protein
   -slower1            boolean    Make lower case
   -supper1            boolean    Make upper case
   -sformat1           string     Input sequence format
   -sdbname1           string     Database name
   -sid1               string     Entryname
   -ufo1               string     UFO features
   -fformat1           string     Features format
   -fopenfile1         string     Features file name

   "-outfile" associated qualifiers
   -odirectory2        string     Output directory

   General qualifiers:
   -auto               boolean    Turn off prompts
   -stdout             boolean    Write standard output
   -filter             boolean    Read standard input, write standard output
   -options            boolean    Prompt for standard and additional values
   -debug              boolean    Write debug output to program.dbg
   -verbose            boolean    Report some/full command line options
   -help               boolean    Report command line options. More
                                  information on associated and general
                                  qualifiers can be found with -help -verbose
   -warning            boolean    Report warnings
   -error              boolean    Report errors
   -fatal              boolean    Report fatal errors
   -die                boolean    Report deaths


                 Standard (Mandatory) qualifiers   Allowed values      Default
   [-sequence]
   (Parameter 1) Sequence USA     Readable sequence Required
                 -wordsize        Word size        Integer 2 or more   4
   [-outfile]
   (Parameter 2) Output file name Output file      <sequence>.wordcount
                 Additional (Optional) qualifiers  Allowed values      Default
                 (none)
                 Advanced (Unprompted) qualifiers  Allowed values      Default
                 (none)

Input file format

   wordcount reads any sequence USA.

  Input files for usage example

   'tembl:rnu68037' is a sequence entry in the example nucleic acid
   database 'tembl'

  Database entry: tembl:rnu68037

ID   RNU68037   standard; RNA; ROD; 1218 BP.
XX
AC   U68037;
XX
SV   U68037.1
XX
DT   23-SEP-1996 (Rel. 49, Created)
DT   04-MAR-2000 (Rel. 63, Last updated, Version 2)
XX
DE   Rattus norvegicus EP1 prostanoid receptor mRNA, complete cds.
XX
KW   .
XX
OS   Rattus norvegicus (Norway rat)
OC   Eukaryota; Metazoa; Chordata; Craniata; Vertebrata; Euteleostomi; Mammalia
;
OC   Eutheria; Rodentia; Sciurognathi; Muridae; Murinae; Rattus.
XX
RN   [1]
RP   1-1218
RA   Abramovitz M., Boie Y.;
RT   "Cloning of the rat EP1 prostanoid receptor";
RL   Unpublished.
XX
RN   [2]
RP   1-1218
RA   Abramovitz M., Boie Y.;
RT   ;
RL   Submitted (26-AUG-1996) to the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ databases.
RL   Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Merck Frosst Center for Therapeutic
RL   Research, P. O. Box 1005, Pointe Claire - Dorval, Quebec H9R 4P8, Canada
XX
DR   SWISS-PROT; P70597; PE21_RAT.
XX
FH   Key             Location/Qualifiers
FH
FT   source          1..1218
FT                   /db_xref="taxon:10116"
FT                   /organism="Rattus norvegicus"
FT                   /strain="Sprague-Dawley"
FT   CDS             1..1218
FT                   /codon_start=1
FT                   /db_xref="SWISS-PROT:P70597"
FT                   /note="family 1 G-protein coupled receptor"
FT                   /product="EP1 prostanoid receptor"
FT                   /protein_id="AAB07735.1"
FT                   /translation="MSPYGLNLSLVDEATTCVTPRVPNTSVVLPTGGNGTSPALPIFS
M
FT                   TLGAVSNVLALALLAQVAGRLRRRRSTATFLLFVASLLAIDLAGHVIPGALVLRLYTA
G
FT                   RAPAGGACHFLGGCMVFFGLCPLLLGCGMAVERCVGVTQPLIHAARVSVARARLALAL
L
FT                   AAMALAVALLPLVHVGHYELQYPGTWCFISLGPPGGWRQALLAGLFAGLGLAALLAAL
V
FT                   CNTLSGLALLRARWRRRRSRRFRENAGPDDRRRWGSRGLRLASASSASSITSTTAALR
S
FT                   SRGGGSARRVHAHDVEMVGQLVGIMVVSCICWSPLLVLVVLAIGGWNSNSLQRPLFLA
V
FT                   RLASWNQILDPWVYILLRQAMLRQLLRLLPLRVSAKGGPTELSLTKSAWEASSLRSSR
H
FT                   SGFSHL"
XX
SQ   Sequence 1218 BP; 162 A; 397 C; 387 G; 272 T; 0 other;
     atgagcccct acgggcttaa cctgagccta gtggatgagg caacaacgtg tgtaacaccc        6
0
     agggtcccca atacatctgt ggtgctgcca acaggcggta acggcacatc accagcgctg       12
0
     cctatcttct ccatgacgct gggtgctgtg tccaacgtgc tggcgctggc gctgctggcc       18
0
     caggttgcag gcagactgcg gcgccgccgc tcgactgcca ccttcctgtt gttcgtcgcc       24
0
     agcctgcttg ccatcgacct agcaggccat gtgatcccgg gcgccttggt gcttcgcctg       30
0
     tatactgcag gacgtgcgcc cgctggcggg gcctgtcatt tcctgggcgg ctgtatggtc       36
0
     ttctttggcc tgtgcccact tttgcttggc tgtggcatgg ccgtggagcg ctgcgtgggt       42
0
     gtcacgcagc cgctgatcca cgcggcgcgc gtgtccgtag cccgcgcacg cctggcacta       48
0
     gccctgctgg ccgccatggc tttggcagtg gcgctgctgc cactagtgca cgtgggtcac       54
0
     tacgagctac agtaccctgg cacttggtgt ttcattagcc ttgggcctcc tggaggttgg       60
0
     cgccaggcgt tgcttgcggg cctcttcgcc ggccttggcc tggctgcgct ccttgccgca       66
0
     ctagtgtgta atacgctcag cggcctggcg ctccttcgtg cccgctggag gcggcgtcgc       72
0
     tctcgacgtt tccgagagaa cgcaggtccc gatgatcgcc ggcgctgggg gtcccgtgga       78
0
     ctccgcttgg cctccgcctc gtctgcgtca tccatcactt caaccacagc tgccctccgc       84
0
     agctctcggg gaggcggctc cgcgcgcagg gttcacgcac acgacgtgga aatggtgggc       90
0
     cagctcgtgg gcatcatggt ggtgtcgtgc atctgctgga gccccctgct ggtattggtg       96
0
     gtgttggcca tcgggggctg gaactctaac tccctgcagc ggccgctctt tctggctgta      102
0
     cgcctcgcgt cgtggaacca gatcctggac ccatgggtgt acatcctgct gcgccaggct      108
0
     atgctgcgcc aacttcttcg cctcctaccc ctgagggtta gtgccaaggg tggtccaacg      114
0
     gagctgagcc taaccaagag tgcctgggag gccagttcac tgcgtagctc ccggcacagt      120
0
     ggcttcagcc acttgtga                                                    121
8
//

Output file format

  Output files for usage example

  File: rnu68037.wordcount

ctg     54
tgg     53
gcc     53
ggc     51
cgc     47
gct     47
gtg     40
tgc     39
cct     38
gcg     36
cca     29
ggg     26
cag     25
ctt     25
tcc     25
ggt     24
ccc     24
ctc     23
tgt     23
cgt     22
cac     22
ccg     22
gca     22
agc     21
ttg     19
cgg     19
acg     19
tcg     18
agg     17
cat     17
ttc     17
gag     16
act     16
gtc     16
aac     15
atc     14
gga     14
tct     14
tca     13
cta     13
atg     12
acc     11
gta     11
gtt     11
caa     10
tga     10
tac     10
aca     10
tag     9
gac     9
agt     9
ttt     8
cga     7
gat     6
taa     6
aga     5
tat     5
gaa     4
ata     3
tta     3
att     3
aat     3
aag     2
aaa     1

   The file simply consists of two columns, separated by spaces or TAB
   characters.

   The first column consists of all the possible words of size wordsize.
   The second column consists of the count of those words in the input
   sequence.

Data files

   None.

Notes

   None.

References

   None.

Warnings

   None.

Diagnostic Error Messages

   None.

Exit status

   0 if successful.

Known bugs

   None.

See also

   Program name                        Description
   banana       Bending and curvature plot in B-DNA
   btwisted     Calculates the twisting in a B-DNA sequence
   chaos        Create a chaos game representation plot for a sequence
   compseq      Count composition of dimer/trimer/etc words in a sequence
   dan          Calculates DNA RNA/DNA melting temperature
   freak        Residue/base frequency table or plot
   isochore     Plots isochores in large DNA sequences
   sirna        Finds siRNA duplexes in mRNA

Author(s)

   Ian Longden (il © sanger.ac.uk)
   Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge,
   CB10 1SA, UK.

History

   Completed 27th November 1998.

Target users

   This program is intended to be used by everyone and everything, from
   naive users to embedded scripts.

Comments

   None
