printsextract
    Function
    Description
Preprocesses the PRINTS database for use with the program PSCAN.
This program derives matrix information from the final motif sets of the
PRINTS data file (prints.dat).  It creates files in the EMBOSS data
subdirectory PRINTS these being a matrix file and files containing text
information for each fingerprint.  Running this program may be the job
of your system manager. 
    Usage
    Command line arguments
    Input file format
The input file must be the "prints.dat" file of a PRINTS distribution. 
The PRINTS database is currently available via the anonymous ftp servers at: 
It is also distributed on the EMBL CD-ROMs. 
The home page for PRINTS is: http://www.bioinf.man.ac.uk/dbbrowser/PRINTS/
    Output file format
The output files are held in the PRINTS subdirectory of the EMBOSS data
directory.
	-  prints.mat		matrices calculated from PRINTS
	
-  Pxxxxx		text information for each fingerprint
    Data files
None.
    Notes
You may have to ask your system manager to run this program.
    References
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 Attwood, T.K., Flower, D.R., Lewis, A.P., Mabey, J.E., Morgan, S.R., 
   Scordis, P., Selley, J. and Wright, W. (1999) PRINTS prepares for the new
   millennium. Nucleic Acids Research, 27(1), 220-225. 
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 Attwood, T.K., Beck, M.E., Flower, D.R., Scordis, P. and Selley, J. (1998)
   The PRINTS protein fingerprint database in its fifth year. Nucleic Acids 
   Research, 26(1), 304-308. 
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 Attwood, T.K., Beck, M.E., Bleasby, A.J., Degtyarenko, K., Michie, A.D. and 
   Parry-Smith, D.J. (1997) Novel developments with the PRINTS protein motif
   fingerprint database. Nucleic Acids Research, 25 (1), 212-216.
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 Attwood, T.K. and Beck, M.E. (1994) PRINTS - A protein motif fingerprint
   database. Protein Engineering, 7(7), 841-848.
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 Bleasby, A.J., Akrigg, D.A. and Attwood, T.K. (1994) OWL - A non-redundant
   composite protein sequence database. Nucleic Acids Research, 22(17), 3574-77.
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Bleasby, A.J. and Wootton, J.C. (1990) Constructing validated, non-
   redundant composite protein sequence databases. Protein Engineering, 3(3), 
   153-159. 
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Parry-Smith, D.J. and Attwood, T.K. (1992) ADSP - A new package for
   computational sequence analysis. CABIOS, 8(5), 451-459.
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Attwood, T.K. and Findlay, J.B.C. (1994) Fingerprinting G-protein-coupled
   receptors. Prot.Engng. 7(2), 195-203.
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Attwood, T.K. and Findlay, J.B.C. (1993) Design of a discriminating finger-
   print for G-protein-coupled receptors. Prot.Engng. 6(2) 167-176.
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 Akrigg, D., Attwood, T.K., Bleasby, A.J., Findlay, J.B.C, North, A.C.T.,
   Maughan, N.A., Parry-Smith, D.J., Perkins, D.N. and Wootton, J.C. (1992)
   SERPENT - An information storage and analysis resource for protein
   sequences. CABIOS 8(3) 295-296.
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Parry-Smith, D.J. and Attwood, T.K. (1991) SOMAP - A novel interactive
    approach to multiple protein sequence aligment. CABIOS, 7(2), 233-235.
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Perkins, D.N. and Attwood, T.K. (1995) VISTAS - A package for VIsualising
    STructures And Sequences of proteins. J.Mol.Graph., 13, 73-75. 
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Parry-Smith, D.J., Payne, A.W.R, Michie, A.D. and Attwood, T.K. (1998) 
    CINEMA - A novel Colour INteractive Editor for Multiple Alignments.
    Gene, 211(2), GC45-56. 
    Warnings
The program will warn you if the input file is incorrectly formatted.
    Diagnostic Error Messages
None.
    Exit status
It exits with status 0 unless an error is reported.
    Known bugs
None.
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