## ALLVERSUSALL documentation

## CONTENTS

1.0 SUMMARY
2.0 INPUTS & OUTPUTS
3.0 INPUT FILE FORMAT
4.0 OUTPUT FILE FORMAT
5.0 DATA FILES
6.0 USAGE
7.0 KNOWN BUGS & WARNINGS
8.0 NOTES
9.0 DESCRIPTION
10.0 ALGORITHM
11.0 RELATED APPLICATIONS
12.0 DIAGNOSTIC ERROR MESSAGES
13.0 AUTHORS
14.0 REFERENCES

## 1.0 SUMMARY

Does an all-versus-all global alignment for each set of sequences in an input directory and writes files of sequence similarity values

## 2.0 INPUTS & OUTPUTS

ALLVERSUSALL reads a directory of files each containing a set of 2 or more sequences, performs an all-versus-all global alignment on each set and writes a file of sequence similarity values for each input file. The output files have the same base name as the input files. The path and extension of the input and output files are specified by the user in the ACD file.

## 3.0 INPUT FILE FORMAT

All common sequence format are supported.

## 4.0 OUTPUT FILE FORMAT

The output file contains 7 columns as follows:

- (1) Sequence number (sequential order in input file) of first sequence of a pair.
- (2) Accesion number of first sequence of a pair.
- (3) A ':' is always given.
- (4) Sequence number of second sequence.
- (5) Accesion number of second sequence.
- (6) A ':' is always given.
- (7) Sequence similarity value (2dp).

### Output files for usage example

### File: swtiny1.out

    1 Q9WVI4 : 2 Q9ERL9 : 90.48
    1 Q9WVI4 : 3 Q9DGG6 : 55.70
    1 Q9WVI4 : 4 Q99396 : 54.74
    1 Q9WVI4 : 5 Q99280 : 57.66
    2 Q9ERL9 : 3 Q9DGG6 : 58.28
    2 Q9ERL9 : 4 Q99396 : 56.39
    2 Q9ERL9 : 5 Q99280 : 62.31
    3 Q9DGG6 : 4 Q99396 : 52.26
    3 Q9DGG6 : 5 Q99280 : 53.99
    4 Q99396 : 5 Q99280 : 83.41

### File: swtiny2.out

    1 O58452 : 2 O30129 : 82.42
    1 O58452 : 3 O26938 : 75.56
    2 O30129 : 3 O26938 : 71.43

### File: ALLVERSUSALL.log

    //
    /ebi/services/idata/pmr/hgmp/test/data/structure/allversusall/swtiny1.fasta
    //
    /ebi/services/idata/pmr/hgmp/test/data/structure/allversusall/swtiny2.fasta

## 5.0 DATA FILES

ALLVERSUSALL uses a residue substitution matrix.

## 6.0 USAGE

### 6.1 COMMAND LINE ARGUMENTS

       Standard (Mandatory) qualifiers:
      [-seqinpath]         dirlist    This option specifies the location of
                                      sequence files (input)
      [-datoutdir]         outdir     This option specifies the location of
                                      sequence similarity data files (output).
       -logfile            outfile    This option specifies the name of
                                      ALLVERSUSALL log file (output). The log file
                                      contains messages about any errors arising
                                      while ALLVERSUSALL ran.

       Additional (Optional) qualifiers:
       -matrix             matrixf    This option specifies the residue
                                      substitution matrix that is used for
                                      sequence comparison.
       -gapopen            float      This option specifies the gap insertion
                                      penalty. The gap insertion penalty is the
                                      score taken away when a gap is created. The
                                      best value depends on the choice of
                                      comparison matrix. The default value assumes
                                      you are using the EBLOSUM62 matrix for
                                      protein sequences, and the EDNAFULL matrix
                                      for nucleotide sequences.
       -gapextend          float      This option specifies the gap extension
                                      penalty. The gap extension, penalty is added
                                      to the standard gap penalty for each base
                                      or residue in the gap. This is how long gaps
                                      are penalized. Usually you will expect a
                                      few long gaps rather than many short gaps,
                                      so the gap extension penalty should be lower
                                      than the gap penalty. An exception is where
                                      one or both sequences are single reads with
                                      possible sequencing errors in which case
                                      you would expect many single base gaps. You
                                      can get this result by setting the gap open
                                      penalty to zero (or very low) and using the
                                      gap extension penalty to control gap
                                      scoring.

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

       "-logfile" associated qualifiers
       -odirectory         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
--- | --- | ---
[-seqinpath] (Parameter 1) | This option specifies the location of sequence files (input) | Directory with files | ./
[-datoutdir] (Parameter 2) | This option specifies the location of sequence similarity data files (output). | Output directory | ./
-logfile | This option specifies the name of ALLVERSUSALL log file (output). The log file contains messages about any errors arising while ALLVERSUSALL ran. | Output file | ALLVERSUSALL.log
Additional (Optional) qualifiers | Allowed values | Default
-matrix | This option specifies the residue substitution matrix that is used for sequence comparison. | Comparison matrix file in EMBOSS data path | EBLOSUM62
-gapopen | This option specifies the gap insertion penalty. The gap insertion penalty is the score taken away when a gap is created. The best value depends on the choice of comparison matrix. The default value assumes you are using the EBLOSUM62 matrix for protein sequences, and the EDNAFULL matrix for nucleotide sequences. | Floating point number from 1.0 to 100.0 | 10.0 for any sequence
-gapextend | This option specifies the gap extension penalty. The gap extension, penalty is added to the standard gap penalty for each base or residue in the gap. This is how long gaps are penalized. Usually you will expect a few long gaps rather than many short gaps, so the gap extension penalty should be lower than the gap penalty. An exception is where one or both sequences are single reads with possible sequencing errors in which case you would expect many single base gaps. You can get this result by setting the gap open penalty to zero (or very low) and using the gap extension penalty to control gap scoring. | Floating point number from 0.0 to 10.0 | 0.5 for any sequence
Advanced (Unprompted) qualifiers | Allowed values | Default
(none)

### 6.2 EXAMPLE SESSION

An example of interactive use of ALLVERSUSALL is shown below. Here is a sample session with allversusall

    % allversusall
    Does an all-versus-all global alignment for each set of sequences in an
    input directory and writes files of sequence similarity values
    Location of sequence files (input [./]: allversusall/
    Location of sequence similarity data files (output) [./]:
    Name allversusall log file (output) [ALLVERSUSALL.log]:

    Processing /ebi/services/idata/pmr/hgmp/test/data/structure/allversusall/swtiny1.fasta
    Processing /ebi/services/idata/pmr/hgmp/test/data/structure/allversusall/swtiny2.fasta

Go to the output files for this example

Files of sequence sets were read from test_data/allversusall/in and files of sequence similarity values were written to test_data/allversusall/. The log file test_data/allversusall/ALLVERSUSALL.log was written. The file path and extension of the input and output files was specified in the ACD file. The default gap insertion, extension and residue substitution matrix were used.

## 7.0 KNOWN BUGS & WARNINGS

None.

## 8.0 NOTES

### 8.1 GLOSSARY OF FILE TYPES

FILE TYPE | FORMAT | DESCRIPTION | CREATED BY | SEE ALSO
Domain hits file | DHF format (FASTA-like). | Database hits (sequences) with domain classification information. The hits are relatives to a SCOP or CATH family (or other node in the structural hierarchies) and are found from a search of a discriminating element (e.g. a protein signature, hidden Markov model, simple frequency matrix, Gribskov profile or Hennikoff profile) against a sequence database. | SEQSEARCH (hits retrieved by PSIBLAST). SIGSCAN (hits retrieved by sparse protein signature). LIBSCAN (hits retrieved by various types of HMM and profile). | N.A.

## 9.0 DESCRIPTION

All-versus-all sequence comparisons are commonly required. ALLVERSUSALL performs a full global pair-wise alignment for every permutation of pair of sequence in each input set of sequences. It writes a file of sequence similarity values for each input set of sequences.

## 10.0 ALGORITHM

Standard N&W type alignment.

## 11.0 RELATED APPLICATIONS

## See also

Program name | Description
--- | ---
aaindexextract | Extract data from AAINDEX
cathparse | Reads raw CATH classification files and writes DCF file (domain classification file)
cutgextract | Extract data from CUTG
domainer | Reads CCF files (clean coordinate files) for proteins and writes CCF files for domains, taken from a DCF file (domain classification file)
domainnr | Removes redundant domains from a DCF file (domain classification file). The file must contain domain sequence information, which can be added by using DOMAINSEQS
domainseqs | Adds sequence records to a DCF file (domain classification file)
domainsse | Adds secondary structure records to a DCF file (domain classification file)
hetparse | Converts raw dictionary of heterogen groups to a file in EMBL-like format
pdbparse | Parses PDB files and writes CCF files (clean coordinate files) for proteins
pdbplus | Add residue solvent accessibility and secondary structure data to a CCF file (clean coordinate file) for a protein or domain
pdbtosp | Convert raw swissprot:PDB equivalence file to EMBL-like format
printsextract | Extract data from PRINTS
prosextract | Builds the PROSITE motif database for patmatmotifs to search
rebaseextract | Extract data from REBASE
scopparse | Reads raw SCOP classification files and writes a DCF file (domain classification file)
seqnr | Removes redundancy from DHF files (domain hits files) or other files of sequences
sites | Reads CCF files (clean coordinate files) and writes CON files (contact files) of residue-ligand contact data for domains in a DCF file (domain classification file)
ssematch | Searches a DCF file (domain classification file) for secondary structure matches
tfextract | Extract data from TRANSFAC

## 12.0 DIAGNOSTIC ERROR MESSAGES

None.

## 13.0 AUTHORS

Jon Ison (jison@rfcgr.mrc.ac.uk)
MRC Rosalind Franklin Centre for Genomics Research Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SB, UK

## 14.0 REFERENCES

Please cite the authors and EMBOSS.
Rice P, Bleasby A.J. 2000. EMBOSS - The European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite. Trends in Genetics, 15:276-278. See also http://www.uk.embnet.org/Software/EMBOSS

### 14.1 Other useful references