dbshowquery displays on-screen information on the possible queries of public databases that use a given data identifier. Optionally the information is written to an output file in plain text or HTML.
The catalogue of public databases in the EMBOSS data file db.dat is used.
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The output file (plain text format) is an excerpt of and (by default) in the same format as the EMBOSS data file db.dat. The format of the file is explained in comments at the top of that file.
dbshowquery will report information from the EMBOSS data file db.dat including (fields from db.dat are in parentheses): the recommended or official unique identifier ('ID'), the full (verbose english) name ('Name'), URL of the database server ('URL') and description of valid queries ('Query').
If the -html qualifier is specified, then the output will be tabulated in a web page suitable for viewing in any browser.
The EMBOSS database information file (db.dat) must be installed in the EMBOSS data directory and indexed. This is done automatically for typical installations.
Optionally the ID of the database and the datatype to be retrieved by the query may be specified.
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