weight (1)

weight [-options] <alignment file>

This manual page documents briefly the weight command.

weight is a program that calculates weights for a sequence alignment.

Available options:

-b <f>

Use BLOSUM weighting scheme at <f> fractional identity.

-f <f>

Filter out seqs w/ fractional ident > <x> [0-1].

-h

Help; print version and usage info.

-o <file>

Save weight-annotated alignment in <outfile>.

-p

Use position based weight scheme (Henikoff & Henikoff).

-s <n>

Sample <n> sequences at random into a new alignment.

-v

Use Voronoi weight scheme (Sibbald & Argos).

--informat <s>

Specify alignment file format <s>.

Allowed formats: SELEX, MSF, Clustal, a2m, PHYLIP.

--quiet

Suppress verbose banner.

afetch(1), alistat(1), compalign(1), compstruct(1), revcomp(1), seqsplit(1), seqstat(1), sfetch(1), shuffle(1), sindex(1), sreformat(1), stranslate(1),

Sean Eddy
HHMI/Department of Genetics
Washington University School of Medicine
4444 Forest Park Blvd., Box 8510
St Louis, MO 63108 USA
Phone: 1-314-362-7666
FAX  : 1-314-362-2157
Email: [email protected]

This manual page was written by Nelson A. de Oliveira <[email protected]>,
for the Debian project (but may be used by others).