Mask off features of a sequence emboss maskfeat -sequence $input1 -outseq $out_file1 -type "$type" -tolower $tolower -maskchar "$maskchar" -osformat2 $out_format1 -auto Sequence Feature to mask Mask features by converting to lowercase No Yes Character to mask with 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)

You can view the original documentation here_. .. _here: http://emboss.sourceforge.net/apps/release/5.0/emboss/apps/maskfeat.html