NAME

       ecofind  -  searching  for taxonomic and rank and taxonomy id for given regular expression
       patterns

DESCRIPTION

       ecoPCR is an electronic PCR software developed by LECA  and  Helix-Project.  It  helps  to
       estimate Barcode primers quality.

       This program belongs to the exoPCR package.

SYNOPSIS

       ecofind [options] <patterns>

OPTIONS

       -a : [A]ll enable the search on all alternative names and not only scientific names.

       -d : [D]atabase containing the taxonomy.
              To  match  the  expected  format,  the  database  has  to  be formated first by the
              ecoPCRFormat.py program located in the tools directory.  Write the database radical
              without any extension.

       -h : [H]elp - print <this> help

       -l : [L]ist all taxonomic rank available for -r option

       -P : [P]ath : add a column containing the full path for each displayed taxon

       -p  : [P]arents : specifiying this option displays all parental tree's information for the
       given taxid.

       -r : [R]estrict to given taxonomic rank

       -s : [S]ons: specifiying this option displays all  subtree's  information  for  the  given
       taxid.

       -P : Display taxonomic [P]ath as suplementary column in output

       arguments:
              <taxon> name pattern bearing regular expressions

SEE ALSO

       http://www.grenoble.prabi.fr/trac/ecoPCR/