The program 'bscan' handles the requests for both amino- and nucleic acid sequences. Each line of information must be less than 80 characters in length. Each directive must be specified on a separate line. Below is a table of UNC BioSCAN E-mail server directives, some of which are required to be present in every search request, and others which can be used to alter the default behavior of the server. Only one database can be searched per Required mail message.
Fractional values are acceptable.
This mandatory directive is not paired with any value. It must appear after all other parameters and immediately before the query sequence. No other directives or parameters besides those described above are selectable through the E-mail server. Only those parameters with an M in the Attributes column are required to be present in a BioSCAN E-mail request. The sequence actually begins on the second line, and continues on subsequent lines as necessary.