Hi Isabelle,

Thanks a lot for your feedback. I might be doing something wrong, but even 
after I remove the extra SQ lines, dbiflat still fails with something like

   EMBOSS An error in embdbi.c at line 1569:
Error in embDbiSortWriteFields, expected entry  not found, last was 'BAD10932'

Have you seen anything like this by any chance? Looking at the ".acnum_sort" 
dbiflat creates, it appears that dbiflat misinterprets some of the lines with 
non-standard line type codes like "PA", and appears to treat the strings in 
those lines as accession numbers. Not sure if my interpretation of what I'm 
seeing is correct, and whether this is what's causing the error I mentioned 
above. What I did try was to simply add the "CC" line type code at the 
beginning of any line whose line type code is not in EMBL standard. This seems 
to have done the trick, but I'm wondering if it's the best way to go.

If it matters, we're using EMBOSS 6.4.0 .

Many thanks,
Daniel
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From: emboss-boun...@lists.open-bio.org [emboss-boun...@lists.open-bio.org] On 
Behalf Of Wells, Isabelle [isabelle.we...@roche.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2013 5:14 AM
To: emboss@lists.open-bio.org
Subject: Re: [EMBOSS] Working with Geneseq databases

Hi Daniel,
We index the geneseq databases in the EMBL format. The problem with Geneseq 
format is that each entry has several lines starting with "SQ   ". Therefore in 
order to make this work you just need to write a program which only prints the 
first line starting with "SQ   " in each entry and skips the following SQ lines.
Hope this helps!

Best regards,
Isabelle Wells
F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd


-----Original Message-----
From: emboss-boun...@lists.open-bio.org 
[mailto:emboss-boun...@lists.open-bio.org] On Behalf Of Rozenbaum, Daniel 
(Biocceleration Inc)
Sent: Wednesday, 6. February 2013 16:50
To: emboss@lists.open-bio.org
Subject: [EMBOSS] Working with Geneseq databases

Dear all,

Does anyone have experience getting EMBOSS to work with the Geneseq database 
distributed by Thomson Reuters ( 
http://thomsonreuters.com/products_services/science/science_products/a-z/geneseq/
 ) ? This database comes in "EMBL-like" format that uses some line codes that 
are not defined in EMBL format proper, which in our experiments has caused 
problems when, for example, trying to index these databases as EMBL-formatted.
--
Daniel Rozenbaum
Biocceleration, Inc.
OCIO/Office of Application Engineering and Development/Patent System Division
600 Dulany St., Alexandria, VA 22314
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