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FASTS/TFASTSv3(1)	     General Commands Manual	       FASTS/TFASTSv3(1)

NAME
     fasts3,  fasts3_t	- compare several short peptide sequences against a pro-
     tein database using a modified fasta algorithm.

     tfasts3, tfasts3_t - compare short pepides against a translated  DNA  data-
     base.

DESCRIPTION
     fasts3  and tfasts3 are designed to compare set of (presumably non-contigu-
     ous) peptides to a protein (fasts3) or translated DNA  (tfasts3)  database.
     fasts3/tfasts3  are designed particularly for short peptide data from mass-
     spec analysis of protein digests.	Unlike the  traditional  fasta3  search,
     which  uses a protein or DNA sequence, fasts3 and tfasts3 work with a query
     sequence of the form:
	  >tests from mgstm1
	  MLLE,
	  MILGYW,
	  MGADP,
	  MLCYNP
This sequence indicates that four peptides are to be used.  When  this	sequence
is compared against mgstm1.aa (included with the distribution), the result is:
     testf    MILGYW----------MLLE------------MGDAP-----------
	      ::::::	      ::::	      :::::
     GT8.7  MPMILGYWNVRGLTHPIRMLLEYTDSSYDEKRYTMGDAPDFDRSQWLNEK
		    10	      20	30	  40	    50

     testf  --------------------------------------------------

     GT8.7  FKLGLDFPNLPYLIDGSHKITQSNAILRYLARKHHLDGETEEERIRADIV
		    60	      70	80	  90	   100

			   20
     testf  ------------MLCYNP
			::::::
     GT8.7  ENQVMDTRMQLIMLCYNPDFEKQKPEFLKTIPEKMKLYSEFLGKRPWFAG
		   110	     120       130	 140	   150

Options
     fasts3  and  tfasts3 can accept a query sequence from the unix "stdin" data
     stream.  This makes it much easier to use fasta3 and its relatives as  part
     of  a WWW page. To indicate that stdin is to be used, use "-" or "@" as the
     query sequence file name.

     -b #   number of best scores to show (must be < -E cutoff)

     -d #   number of best alignments to show ( must be < -E cutoff)

     -D     turn on debugging mode.  Enables checks on	sequence  alphabet  that
	    cause problems with tfastx3, tfasty3, tfasta3.

     -E #   Expectation  value	limit for displaying scores and alignments.  Ex-
	    pectation values for fasts3 and tfasts3 are not as accurate as those
	    for the other fasta3 programs.

     -H     turn off histogram display

     -i     compare against only the reverse complement of the library sequence.

     -L     report long sequence description in alignments

     -m 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,9,10
	    alignment display options

     -N #   break long library sequences into blocks of # residues.  Useful  for
	    bacterial  genomes,  which	have  only  one sequence entry.  -N 2000
	    works well for well for bacterial genomes.

     -O file
	    send output to file

     -q/-Q  quiet option; do not prompt for input

     -R file
	    save all scores to statistics file

     -S #   offset substitution matrix values by  a constant #

     -s name
	    specify substitution matrix.  BLOSUM50 is used by  default;  PAM250,
	    PAM120,  and  BLOSUM62 can be specified by setting -s P120, P250, or
	    BL62.  With this version, many more scoring matrices are  available,
	    including  BLOSUM80  (BL80),  and  MDM_10, MDM_20, MDM_40 (M10, M20,
	    M40). Alternatively, BLASTP1.4 format scoring matrix  files  can  be
	    specified.

     -T #   (threaded,	parallel  only) number of threads or workers to use (set
	    by default to 4 at compile time).

     -t #   Translation table - tfasts3 can use  the  BLAST  tranlation  tables.
	    See http://www.ncbi.nih.gov/htbin-post/Taxonomy/wprintgc?mode=c/.

     -w #   line width for similarity score, sequence alignment, output.

     -x "#,#"
	    offsets query, library sequence for numbering alignments

     -z #   Specify statistical calculation. Default is -z 1, which uses regres-
	    sion  against the length of the library sequence. -z 0 disables sta-
	    tistics.  -z 2 uses the ln() length correction. -z 3  uses	Altschul
	    and Gish's statistical estimates for specific protein BLOSUM scoring
	    matrices and gap penalties. -z 4: an alternate regression method.

     -Z db_size
	    Set  the  apparent database size used for expectation value calcula-
	    tions.

     -3     (TFASTS3 only) use only forward frame translations

Environment variables:
     FASTLIBS
	    location of library choice file (-l FASTLIBS)

     SMATRIX
	    default scoring matrix (-s SMATRIX)

     SRCH_URL
	    the format string used to define the option to re-search  the  data-
	    base.

     REF_URL
	    the  format  string  used to define the option to lookup the library
	    sequence in entrez, or some other database.

AUTHOR
     Bill Pearson
     wrp@virginia.EDU

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