Alter the name or description of a sequenceembossdescseq -sequence $input1 -outseq $out_file1 -name "$seqname" -description "$desc" -append $append -osformat2 $out_format1 -auto
You can view the original documentation here_.
.. _here: http://emboss.sourceforge.net/apps/release/5.0/emboss/apps/descseq.html