maskfeat (1e)

maskfeat -sequence seqall [-type string] [-tolower toggle] -maskchar string -outseq seqout maskfeat -help

maskfeat is a command line program from EMBOSS (“the European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite”). It is part of the "Edit,Feature tables" command group(s).

Input section

-sequence seqall

Additional section

-type string

By default any feature in the feature table with a type starting 'repeat' is masked. You can set this to be any feature type you wish to mask. See http://www.ebi.ac.uk/embl/WebFeat/ for a list of the EMBL feature types and see Appendix A of the Swissprot user manual in http://www.expasy.org/sprot/userman.html for a list of the Swissprot feature types. The type may be wildcarded by using '*'. If you wish to mask more than one type, separate their names with spaces or commas, eg: *UTR repeat* Default value: repeat*

-tolower toggle

The region can be 'masked' by converting the sequence characters to lower-case, some non-EMBOSS programs e.g. fasta can interpret this as a masked region. The sequence is unchanged apart from the case change. You might like to ensure that the whole sequence is in upper-case before masking the specified regions to lower-case by using the '-supper' flag. Default value: N

-maskchar string

Character to use when masking. Default is 'X' for protein sequences, 'N' for nucleic sequences. If the mask character is set to be the SPACE character or a null character, then the sequence is 'masked' by changing it to lower-case, just as with the '-lowercase' flag. Default value: @($(acdprotein)?X:N)

Output section

-outseq seqout

Bugs can be reported to the Debian Bug Tracking system (http://bugs.debian.org/emboss), or directly to the EMBOSS developers (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=93650&atid=605031).

maskfeat is fully documented via the tfm(1) system.

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