Dear EMBOSS developers, I have used extractfeats in EMBOSS 6.4 to extract some features of GenBank files with commands like the following.
$ extractfeat TRG@.gb -filter -join TRUE -tag 'standard_name' -value "TRGC1" -describe standard_name -osformat2 fasta >NG_007033_36562_39077 [C_region] (standard_name="TRGC1") Mus musculus T cell receptor gamma chain (Tcrg) on chromosome 13. acaaaaggcttgatgcagacatttcccccaagcccactattttccttccttctgttgctg aaacaaatctccataagactgggacatacctttgtctccttgaaaagttctttccagatg ttataagggtgtattggaaagaaaaggatggcaatactatcctggactcccaggaagggg atacgctgaagactaacgacacatacatgaagtttagctggcttacagtgcctgaaaggg caatggggaaagagcacagatgtattgtcaaacatgagaacaacaaaggaggagcagatc aagagattttctttccttcaataaagaaagttgctgtgagtaccaagcctacaacttgct ggcaagataaaaatgatgtgctgcagctccagttcacgatcacctctgcctactacacct accttctcctgctcctcaagagtgtgatctacttggccatcatcagcttctctctgctta gaagaacatctgtctgtggcaatgagaagaaatcctaa However, with EMBOSS 6.6, there is no output anymore. $ extractfeat TRG@.gb -filter -join TRUE -tag 'standard_name' -value "TRGC1" -describe standard_name -osformat2 fasta Warning: No sequences written to output file 'stdout' The TRG@.gb file was downloaded from NCBI's website and a copy is available at the following URL. http://source.clonotyper.branchable.com/?p=source.git;a=blob;f=references/TRG@.gb;h=9d48fafbb7e4209a462dbb1ab552195c00e920e3;hb=HEAD The commands ran on a Debian system with the Debian packages 6.4.0-2 or 6.6.0-1. Is that a bug in EMBOSS > 6.4 ? Have a nice day, Charles Plessy -- Charles Plessy, Ph.D. – RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies Division of Genomic Technologies – Genomics Miniaturization Technology Unit 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045 Japan http://population-transcriptomics.org/ _______________________________________________ EMBOSS mailing list EMBOSS@lists.open-bio.org http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/emboss