Alter the name or description of a sequence emboss descseq -sequence $input1 -outseq $out_file1 -name "$seqname" -description "$desc" -append $append -osformat2 $out_format1 -auto On query Name of the sequence Description of the sequence Append the name or description on to the end of the existing name or description Yes No Output Sequence File Format FASTA (m) ACeDB (m) ASN.1 (m) Clustal (m) CODATA (m) EMBL (m) Fitch (m) Wisconsin Package GCG 9.x and 10.x (s) GENBANK (m) GFF (m) Hennig86 (m) Intelligenetics (m) Jackknifer (m) Jackknifernon (m) Mega (m) Meganon (m) Wisconsin Package GCG's MSF (m) NBRF (PIR) (m) NCBI style FASTA (m) Nexus/PAUP (m) Nexusnon/PAUPnon (m) PHYLIP interleaved (m) PHYLIP non-interleaved (m) SELEX (m) Staden (s) DNA strider (m) SwisProt entry (m) Plain sequence (s) Treecon (m)

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