seqstat is part of the HMMer package. HMMER is an implementation of profile hidden Markov models (profile HMMs) for biological sequence analysis. Profile HMMs are statistical models of multiple sequence alignments. They capture position-specific information about how conserved each column of the alignment is, and which residues are likely.

seqstat shows simple statistics about a sequence file containing one or more sequences. This includes the name, format, number of sequences, as well as various other information. Command line options for seqstat can be found by typing seqstat -h on the command line.

Sample data on Bio-Liniux for the HMMER package can be found in
/usr/software/sampledata/hmmer_demo_data

References:
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Durbin, R., Eddy, S. R., Krogh, A., and Mitchison, G. J. (1998). Biological Sequence Analysis: Probabilistic Models of Proteins and Nucleic Acids. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK.

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