Description dbigcg indexes a flat file database of one or more files, and builds EMBL CD-ROM format index files. Here is a sample session with dbigcg. Any string is accepted . Any string is accepted . Sort options, typically '-T .
Any string is accepted -T .
Output file format dbigcg creates four index files. All are binary but with a simple format. This header is followed by one record for each database file, giving the full file names for the reference file and sequence file. It has the same 300 byte header, mainly used to store the record size which will depend on the size of the longest entryname in the database. Each entry is stored in sorted alphanumeric order so that a binary search can be used to efficiently find any record.