man ecofind (1): searching for taxonomic and rank and taxonomy id for given regular expression patterns

DESCRIPTION

ecoPCR is an electronic PCR software developed by LECA and Helix-Project. It helps to estimate Barcode primers quality.

This program belongs to the exoPCR package.

ecofind [options] <patterns>

-a : [A]ll enable the search on all alternative names and not only scientific names.
-d : [D]atabase containing the taxonomy.: To match the expected format, the database has to be formated first by the ecoPCRFormat.py program located in the tools directory. Write the database radical without any extension.
-h : [H]elp - print <this> help
-l : [L]ist all taxonomic rank available for -r option
-P : [P]ath : add a column containing the full path for each displayed taxon
-p : [P]arents : specifiying this option displays all parental tree's information for the given taxid.
-r : [R]estrict to given taxonomic rank
-s : [S]ons: specifiying this option displays all subtree's information for the given taxid.
-P : Display taxonomic [P]ath as suplementary column in output
arguments:: <taxon> name pattern bearing regular expressions