The annotations contain the complete documentation for each entry in the sequence database, including journal and author names, sequence features, comments, etc. The annotations appear at the top of sequences copied from a GCG database with the Fetch program. The definitions are reprinted in the Data Files manual. The StringSearch program searches through either the definitions alone or the complete sequence annotations for text patterns that you specify.
Annotations take much longer to search than definitions.
If you believe that a published human sequence in the database is 1,531-bases long, you can search for entries that contain both human and 1531. Each sequence in a list file must be preceded by a logical name for one of the databases or database divisions. Sequence specification is described in detail in Chapter 2, Using Sequences of the User's Guide . Sequence specification is described in detail in Chapter 2, Using Sequences of the User's Guide . If your sequence specification is not preceded by a logical name, StringSearch looks in all of the databases and in all of the GCG data files to find all possible entry names.