As has been mentioned in other replies about this, sequences retrieved
from NCBI are in a format of their own and not anything like the flatfile
formats for any of the sequence databases. If a single sequence has been
retrieved, you can use REFORMAT to create a file in GCG format - PROVIDED you do
the following:
- edit the retrieve sequence, placing a line with .. after the
comments, etc. and before the sequence
- search through sequence's documentation to be sure there are
no other lines with .. before the one you added. [Look
especially at entries in the features table which provide
info about the beginning and ending sequence positions for
elements of interest. These begin/end numbers are separated
a pair of periods ( .. ) and REFORMAT will make the line with
them the 'dividing line' and add everything after those dots
into the sequence. You wont find that very useful.]
MJW
Michael J. Weise, Ph.D.
System Administrator
University of Georgia
Biological Sciences Computing Resource
internet: weise at bscr.uga.edu
