ASN2ASN(1)

💖 ASN2ASN — the NCBI glow-up converter 💖

okay bestie, this is asn2asn, a lil tool from the NCBI Tools User's Manual, and she is literally a format-shifting icon 💅

✨ NAME ✨

asn2asn — convert NCBI data between text and binary ASN.1 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

asn2asn [-] [-b] [-e] [-i filename] [-l filename] [-o filename] [-s]
[-x]

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so what does she DO? asn2asn takes data in NCBI's ASN.1 format and converts it between binary and text subformats — or, if you're feeling fancy, into isomorphic XML ✨

that's it. that's the whole vibe. she's a translator and she's booked and busy 💅

🔥 OPTIONS 🔥

here's the full rundown, no skips, no cuts, we keep every single one 💖

• - — print the usage message. just a lil "hey here's how you use me" moment 🫶
• -b — input asnfile in binary mode 🧊
• -e — the input is a Seq-entry 👑
• -i filename — read input from filename instead of stdin 📥
• -l filename — log errors to filename 📝 (yes queen, keep receipts)
• -o filename — write output to filename instead of stdout 📤
• -s — output asnfile in binary mode 🧊
• -x — output XML instead of ASN.1 🌈

ngl bestie, -b is for input and -s is for output — don't mix them up, that's the whole plot twist 😭

👑 AUTHOR 👑

The National Center for Biotechnology Information. (the icons who made her fr fr 🫡)

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• asn2ff(1)
• asn2gb(1)
• asn2xml(1)
• asndhuff(1)

the whole friend group, go say hi 🥰

and that's the page!! 💖 source is NCBI, version/date 2002-08-30, from the NCBI Tools User's Manual — and yes she's been serving since 2002 and still ate, periodt 💅✨🎀🦋🌸