dbstat                                               update  3 Feb 94 

      NAME
           dbstat - calculates amino acid frequencies in a protein
                    database 
      
      SYNOPSIS
           dbstat 
      
      DESCRIPTION
           dbstat reads a file of one or more nucleic acid sequences 
           and calculates the amino acid frequencies, both in terms of 
           absolute numbers, and as a fraction of the total. 
                            
           input - The input file is the standard .wrp (Pearson) format, 
           such as that produced by getob:
           
           >name
           ; one or more comment lines (optional)
           sequence lines

           Comments begin either with semicolon (;) or right arrow (>) 
           characters. 

    AUTHOR
       Dr. Brian Fristensky
       Dept. of Plant Science
       University of Manitoba
       Winnipeg, MB  Canada  R3T 2N2
       Phone: 204-474-6085
       FAX: 204-261-5732
       frist@cc.umanitoba.ca

     REFERENCE
       Fristensky, B. (1993) Feature expressions: creating and manipulating
       sequence datasets. Nucleic Acids Research 21:5997-6003.