agr2ace.pl Agricola_dump_file > Agricola.ace
In addition to the captured file, the script writes two additonal files which may be helpful in creations of .ace files for your database. The first is a listing of the journal names in "journal.names", and second, the GenBank accessions in the file "genbank.acc".
The references are labelled using the convention of first author + year + a 5 character accession label + #_#number. By default the accession label begins with "aaaaa". If the script is run with the "-start=xxxxx" option, labelling begins with xxxxx, and the next reference would have the accession label of xxxxy.
The "#_#number" is a temporary extention which allows one to easily pick out the new references from those all ready in the database when looking at a keyset of references from the database. This is one method to look for duplicates. Once checked, the "#_#number" should be removed from the name before finally committing the references to the database.
Comments to: John Morris