ASN2XML(1)

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💖 ASN2XML(1) — bestie's guide to the asn2xml page 💖

okay so this is the manual page for asn2xml, and it lives in the NCBI Tools User's Manual. yes we're doing manpage girl math today, pull up a chair 🪑✨

✨ NAME ✨

asn2xml — translate biological data from ASN.1 to XML 🧬➡️📄

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

asn2xml [-] [-b F] [-e] [-i filename] [-l filename] [-o filename] [-s]

that's the whole vibe, bestie. one command, a lil pile of optional flags, iconic 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so what does asn2xml actually do? it takes an NCBI Seq-entry or Bioseq-set from ASN.1 format and converts it into an isomorphic XML representation. like, same shape, different outfit. glow-up but make it lossless ✨

and here's the tea, because this is the part that makes it special: it differs from asn2asn -x in that it converts packed sequence data back into human-readable ASCII text. not me caring about your eyeballs 🥺💖

💅 OPTIONS 💅

a summary of options is included below. (their words. our energy.) 🔥

  • - — print usage message. just a lil "here's how u use me" 🫶
  • -b F — input asnfile in text mode 📝
  • -e — input is a Seq-entry 🧬
  • -i filename — read ASN.1 from filename (default is stdin) 📥
  • -l filename — log errors to filename (default is stderr) 🚨
  • -o filename — write XML to filename (default is stdout) 📤
  • -s — input is a Seq-submit 🧾
no cap: the defaults are real. no -i means it's reading from stdin, no -o means it's yelling XML at stdout, and no -l means your errors are going straight to stderr. plan accordingly bestie 😭

👑 AUTHOR 👑

The National Center for Biotechnology Information. legends, fr fr 🫡

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go read these next, they're all part of the family:

and that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 this one's brought to you by NCBI, dated 2005-05-16 — yeah, she's vintage, she's still serving, we love her 💜🦋 mwah, go convert something ✨

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