In <vuilleumier.58.000F596D at micro.biol.ethz.ch> vuilleumier at micro.biol.ethz.ch writes:
> I have a set of fingerprint motifs (Prosite, Prints) of interest which
> include the accession numbers of all proteins which have such a motif.
> Can I do a FASTA-type search on a file containing just the accession numbers
> of these proteins?
> Or do I have to all these sequences (hundreds) from the databases
> with FETCH, give them names, put these names in a file, use this file to do
> FASTA? In this case, can I automate the fetch process?
When your are prompted for the sequences to scan just enter something like
@my_file.name
Note the "@" preceding your filename to indicate that your file is a
"file of sequence names". And it shouldn't matter whether it contains
real sequence names or just accession numbers.
Regards,
Christoph Gartmann
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