I wonder, does anyone use WORDSEARCH any more for full database searches?
I just had a complaint from a user that it crashed with integer overflow
in the SEARCHHIST routine. It turns out that the count of diagonals
searched had overflowed (2*10^9 maximum integer value reached). A quick
back-of-the-envelope calculation shows that for a 6000bp search sequence
against the full GenEmbl database the overflow is expected.
Strange that I have had no other reports here. I assume nobody searches
GenEmbl with it these days.
I still like WORDSEARCH very much for searching smaller collections of
sequences, and use it a lot in Fragment Assembly or for analysis of the
sequences in ECD (E.coli database).
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