'\" t .\" Title: SIRNA .\" Author: Debian Med Packaging Team .\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.76.1 .\" Date: 05/11/2012 .\" Manual: EMBOSS Manual for Debian .\" Source: EMBOSS 6.4.0 .\" Language: English .\" .TH "SIRNA" "1e" "05/11/2012" "EMBOSS 6.4.0" "EMBOSS Manual for Debian" .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .\" * Define some portability stuff .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .\" http://bugs.debian.org/507673 .\" http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2009-02/msg00013.html .\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq .el .ds Aq ' .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .\" * set default formatting .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .\" disable hyphenation .nh .\" disable justification (adjust text to left margin only) .ad l .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .\" * MAIN CONTENT STARTS HERE * .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .SH "NAME" sirna \- Finds siRNA duplexes in mRNA .SH "SYNOPSIS" .HP \w'\fBsirna\fR\ 'u \fBsirna\fR \fB\-sequence\ \fR\fB\fIseqall\fR\fR [\fB\-poliii\ \fR\fB\fIboolean\fR\fR] [\fB\-aa\ \fR\fB\fIboolean\fR\fR] [\fB\-tt\ \fR\fB\fIboolean\fR\fR] [\fB\-polybase\ \fR\fB\fIboolean\fR\fR] \fB\-outfile\ \fR\fB\fIreport\fR\fR \fB\-outseq\ \fR\fB\fIseqoutall\fR\fR [\fB\-context\ \fR\fB\fIboolean\fR\fR] .HP \w'\fBsirna\fR\ 'u \fBsirna\fR \fB\-help\fR .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP \fBsirna\fR is a command line program from EMBOSS (\(lqthe European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite\(rq)\&. It is part of the "Nucleic:Functional sites,Nucleic:2D structure" command group(s)\&. .SH "OPTIONS" .SS "Input section" .PP \fB\-sequence\fR \fIseqall\fR .RS 4 .RE .SS "Sequence input options" .PP \fB\-poliii\fR \fIboolean\fR .RS 4 This option allows you to select only the 21 base probes that start with a purine and so can be expressed from Pol III expression vectors\&. This is the NARN(17)YNN pattern that has been suggested by Tuschl et al\&. Default value: N .RE .PP \fB\-aa\fR \fIboolean\fR .RS 4 This option allows you to select only those 23 base regions that start with AA\&. If this option is not selected then regions that start with AA will be favoured by giving them a higher score, but regions that do not start with AA will also be reported\&. Default value: N .RE .PP \fB\-tt\fR \fIboolean\fR .RS 4 This option allows you to select only those 23 base regions that end with TT\&. If this option is not selected then regions that end with TT will be favoured by giving them a higher score, but regions that do not end with TT will also be reported\&. Default value: N .RE .PP \fB\-polybase\fR \fIboolean\fR .RS 4 If this option is FALSE then only those 23 base regions that have no repeat of 4 or more of any bases in a row will be reported\&. No regions will ever be reported that have 4 or more G\*(Aqs in a row\&. Default value: Y .RE .SS "Output section" .PP \fB\-outfile\fR \fIreport\fR .RS 4 The output is a table of the forward and reverse parts of the 21 base siRNA duplex\&. Both the forward and reverse sequences are written 5\*(Aq to 3\*(Aq, ready to be ordered\&. The last two bases have been replaced by \*(AqdTdT\*(Aq\&. The starting position of the 23 base region and the %GC content is also given\&. If you wish to see the complete 23 base sequence, then either look at the sequence in the other output file, or use the qualifier \*(Aq\-context\*(Aq which will display the 23 bases of the forward sequence in this report with the first two bases in brackets\&. These first two bases do not form part of the siRNA probe to be ordered\&. .RE .PP \fB\-outseq\fR \fIseqoutall\fR .RS 4 This is a file of the sequences of the 23 base regions that the siRNAs are selected from\&. You may use it to do searches of mRNA databases (e\&.g\&. REFSEQ) to confirm that the probes are unique to the gene you wish to use it on\&. .RE .PP \fB\-context\fR \fIboolean\fR .RS 4 The output report file gives the sequences of the 21 base siRNA regions ready to be ordered\&. This does not give you an indication of the 2 bases before the 21 bases\&. It is often interesting to see which of the suggested possible probe regions have an \*(AqAA\*(Aq in front of them (i\&.e\&. it is useful to see which of the 23 base regions start with an \*(AqAA\*(Aq)\&. This option displays the whole 23 bases of the region with the first two bases in brackets, e\&.g\&. \*(Aq(AA)\*(Aq to give you some context for the probe region\&. YOU SHOULD NOT INCLUDE THE TWO BASES IN BRACKETS WHEN YOU PLACE AN ORDER FOR THE PROBES\&. Default value: N .RE .SH "BUGS" .PP Bugs can be reported to the Debian Bug Tracking system (http://bugs\&.debian\&.org/emboss), or directly to the EMBOSS developers (http://sourceforge\&.net/tracker/?group_id=93650&atid=605031)\&. .SH "SEE ALSO" .PP sirna is fully documented via the \fBtfm\fR(1) system\&. .SH "AUTHOR" .PP \fBDebian Med Packaging Team\fR <\&debian\-med\-packaging@lists\&.alioth\&.debian\&.org\&> .RS 4 Wrote the script used to autogenerate this manual page\&. .RE .SH "COPYRIGHT" .br .PP This manual page was autogenerated from an Ajax Control Definition of the EMBOSS package\&. It can be redistributed under the same terms as EMBOSS itself\&. .sp