ASN2IDX(1)

💖 ASN2IDX 💖

okay bestie, welcome to asn2idx, straight out of the NCBI Tools User's Manual — she's a little command-line icon from the NCBI, and she's here to do exactly one thing and do it gorgeously ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

asn2idx — index ASN.1 Bioseq-sets for fast access to individual sequences 🧚

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

asn2idx [-] [-b] [-d dir] [-f filter] -p path [-r path] [-t] [-x str]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like. imagine a Bioseq-set. it's a big ol' pile of sequences — think GenBank release files, the whole crowd 👑. asn2idx indexes those ASN.1 Bioseq-sets so that retrieving the individual sequences inside them is fast. no more digging through the whole file like it's your camera roll looking for one pic, no ma'am 💅

and for each and every file it processes, it drops an output file in the same directory as the original, with the extension .idx. that's it, that's the whole vibe. index files, slay, periodt. ✨

💅 OPTIONS 💅

here's the little rundown of your options, bestie. read them all, they're short and they're precious 🫶

• - — print the usage message. that's it. a little "hey, here's how you use me" moment 🙈
• -b — the Bioseq-sets are Binary. capital B, capital energy.
• -d dir — the Required Subdirectory. you gotta give her a dir.
• -f filter — the Filter. and the default? she comes pre-loaded: gbcon,gbest,gbgss,gbhtg,gbsts — that's the factory setting, no cap 💖
• -p path — Path to Files. where the files at? tell her. 📂
• -p path — Path for Results. yes bestie, -p shows up twice in the original list, and we are not editing her. two -p entries, one for the input files path and one for the results path. she contains multitudes. 🌈
• -t — Recurse. she goes deep. directories within directories within directories 🔥
• -x str — File Selection Substring. default = .aso — that's the string she's matching on to pick her files 🎀

ngl, the synopsis also shows a -r path sitting there in the middle of the flags, and the option list above doesn't spell it out. i'm just reporting what the page says, bestie — i'm not gonna make up a meaning for it and neither should you 🙈 keep it in the synopsis exactly as written: [-r path].

👑 AUTHOR 👑

The National Center for Biotechnology Information. icons. legends. the blueprint. 💜

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

• asn2asn(1)
• asndhuff(1)

go read those too, they're part of the same girl group 💖

mwah 💋 that's the page, bestie. this one's from the NCBI, dated 2008-12-13, living in the NCBI Tools User's Manual — a true vintage queen who still eats. go index something. 🎀✨🦋