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.TH PSEQUIN 1 2001-10-05 NCBI "NCBI Tools User's Manual"
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Psequin \- submit sequences to Genbank, EMBL, and DDBJ
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This manual page documents briefly the \fBPsequin\fP command.
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This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution
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because the original program does not have a manual page.
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\fBPsequin\fP is a program designed to aid in the submission of
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sequences to the GenBank, EMBL, and DDBJ sequence databases. It was
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written at the National Center for Biotechnology Information, part of
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the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health.
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\fBPsequin\fP can assemble the essential elements of a GenBank record
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from simple FASTA-format text files. For example, the program obtains
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the proper genetic code from an organism name, and automatically
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determines coding region intervals by back-translation from the
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protein sequence. An on-line help window scrolls to the appropriate
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place as the user moves between and within data entry forms, giving
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relevant details on what information is expected.
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\fBPsequin\fP also contains a number of built-in validation functions
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for quality assurance. Features such as splice sites and coding region
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translations are checked for accuracy or internal
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consistency. Double-clicking on an error message launches an
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appropriate editor by which the user can correct any problems.
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\fBPsequin\fP provides live, clickable views of the data in a variety
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of formats, including a report form, GenBank flatfile, EMBL flatfile,
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and a graphical view. Double clicking on an item in any of these
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formats launches an editor for that item. The editor is capable of
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maintaining correct feature table positions as the underlying sequence
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is edited. It can display features on the sequence during editing, and
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allows feature intervals to be adjusted by direct manipulation.
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This manual page was written by Aaron M. Ucko <ucko@debian.org>,
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for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
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/usr/share/doc/ncbi-tools-x11/sequin.htm,
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<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Sequin/>