BLST2TKNS(1)

💅 BLST2TKNS 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the blst2tkns page from the NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual — yes, that's a whole manual, and yes, this one little tool lives inside it, being iconic and underrated. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

blst2tkns — it tokenizes XML-formatted magicblast output. that's the whole job. she does one thing and she slays it 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

blst2tkns

that's it. no flags, no args, no drama. she takes nothing and gives everything ✨ (well, she takes stdin, but we'll get there).

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea 🍓: blst2tkns reads XML-formatted magicblast output from standard input and summarizes the details on standard output as a tab-delimited two-column key/value table. literally a little glow-up from raw XML into a tidy lil table. main character energy fr fr 👑

NB: at the time of this writing, magicblast cannot produce suitable XML output itself 😭. so instead, you can request ASN.1 output via -outfmt asn and pipe the result through transmute -a2x. that's the pipeline, bestie — don't skip the middleman, she's doing the heavy lifting 🙈

so like, the vibe check is: magicblast → -outfmt asn → transmute -a2x → blst2tkns → cute little table. no cap. 🔥

💖 SEE ALSO 💖

• split-at-intron(1)
• transmute(1)

go read those too, they're part of the friend group 🧚

mwah 💜 this page came to you from NCBI, dated 2023-02-02, and it's serving <rainbow>BLST2TKNS(1)</rainbow> realness. bye bestie, go tokenize something 🎀✨