ASN2REF(1)

✨ ASN2REF(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual 🫶 this one's a lil cutie, a whole page for asn2ref, and honestly? she's giving quiet main character energy. let's get into it 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

asn2ref — produce Reference Index (CITATION) XML from Seq-entry ASN.1 💖

like. that's the whole job. that's the vibe. no cap.

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

asn2ref

no flags, no args, no drama. she just exists and does her thing ✨

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the tea ☕ — asn2ref reads NCBI Seq-entry ASN.1 from standard input and writes the corresponding Reference Index (CITATION) XML to standard output.

that's it. that's the whole pipeline. in goes ASN.1, out comes CITATION XML. it's giving glow-up fr fr 🌈✨

think of her like a lil translator fairy 🧚 — she doesn't ask questions, she doesn't take names, she just pipes your Seq-entry ASN.1 through and hands you back the XML. obsessed. 🔥

ngl bestie, she's a filter — stdin in, stdout out, no files touched, no side quests. if you were hoping for flags to tweak, bestie… keep reading 🙈

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• None.

literally none. zero. nada. she has no options and honestly? she doesn't need them. she's confident like that 💀✨ it's giving minimalism as a personality.

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

your lil squad of related tools, go say hi 🫶

• csv2xml(1)
• ref2pmid(1)
• xtract(1)

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🎀 no plot twists, no hidden flags, just a tiny icon doing one job flawlessly. periodt. 💖

mwah — brought to you by NCBI, dated 2025-05-26 🌸 take care of her, she's precious ✨🦋💜