The program facilitates access to the 16S sequences file, supporting various search functionality, supporting several complexity levels as described below:
- Sequential access using a starting position in the file.
- Sequential access to a specific sequence by sequence-id.
- Sequential access to find a set of sequence-ids given in a query file, and writing the output to a specified result file.
- Indexed file access, implementing direct access to sequences.
- Search for an exact match of a DNA query string.
- Search for a sequence meta-data containing a given word
- Search for a sequence containing wild cards.