Catalogue of Molecular Biology Programs
                             Release 6.1
                            23 Jul 1999

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AC             BC00402
NAME           DBCOMP
DOMAIN         Databases tools
DESCRIPTION    DBCOMP (and its counterpart DBUNCOMP) is based on the idea
DESCRIPTION    of substitutional compression. Whereas
DESCRIPTION    conventional substitutional compressors reduce
DESCRIPTION    redundant phrases of rather small word-size, they do
DESCRIPTION    not eliminate identical lines of consecutive entries,
DESCRIPTION    which is a typical source of redundancy in
DESCRIPTION    automatically acquired biological sequence data. In
DESCRIPTION    contrast, DBCOMP is a line-oriented substitutional
DESCRIPTION    compressor. By using a flexible word-size of one line,
DESCRIPTION    the program replaces identical lines with a pointer to
DESCRIPTION    the previous occurrence of those lines. The
DESCRIPTION    compression scheme of DBCOMP is particularly suited to
DESCRIPTION    compress databases that are highly redundant in the
DESCRIPTION    annotation section as is typical of databases derived
DESCRIPTION    from genome projects.
AUTHOR         R. Doelz and F. Eggenberger
RA             Doelz R., Eggenberger F.;
RT             "A compression mechanism for sequence databases
RT             to improve the efficiency of conventional tools.";
RL             Comput. Appl. Biosci. 11(2):219-223(1995).
RX             Medline; 95346420.
RX             SeqAnalRef; DOER9501.
ADDRESS        Biocomputing, Basel University, Biozentrum,
ADDRESS        Klingelbergstrasse 70, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
CONTACT        embnet@comp.bioz.unibas.ch
SITE           ftp anonymous nic.switch.ch
SITE           Directory /mirror/embnet-ch/dbcomp
SITE-CONTACT   -
OS             Irix, Ultrix, OSF/1,AIX, SunOS, VAX/VMS, AXP/VMS, DOS,
OS             DOS/Windows and MacOS
LANGUAGE       ANSI C
VOLUME         -
REQUIRES       -
COMMENTS       Both a command-line version and a graphical user 
COMMENTS       interface (GUI) are available. The GUI was written with the Software 
COMMENTS       Development ToolKit from the National Center for Biotechnology 
COMMENTS       Information (NCBI).