ESAMPLE(1)

✨ ESAMPLE(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual 💖 you're literally about to meet esample, and she's a whole vibe. let's get into it 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

esample — prints a sample document for use with NCBI Entrez Direct. yes that's the whole job. she serves one purpose and she serves it iconically 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

esample -docsum|-article|-book|-protein|-gene|-taxon|-blast|-snp|-hgvs|
-bioc|-flatfile|-gff|-gencode

so like... you pick exactly one of those flags, bestie. one. singular. it's giving "choose your fighter" 🦋

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🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

esample writes a sample document to standard output. typically that sample document is NCBI Entrez XML, and it comes from whichever database you named. that's it. that's the whole plot. no cap ⭐

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -docsum — writes an NCBI DocumentSummarySet XML document (PMID 6301692).
• -article — writes an NCBI PubmedArticle XML document (PMID 6301692).
• -book — writes an NCBI PubmedArticleSet XML document (PMID 21433338).
• -protein — writes an NCBI INSDSeq XML document (accession AAQ05867.1).
• -gene — writes an NCBI DocumentSummary XML document (gene IL9R).
• -taxon — writes an NCBI TaxaSet XML document (for Homo sapiens). yes, us. we're the sample 🧚
• -blast — writes an NCBI BlastOutput XML document (for blastx results).
• -snp — writes an NCBI JSON document (for refsnp_id 1238141906).
• -hgvs — writes a Human Genome Variation Society entry (for position 5,226,774 on NC_000011.10).
• -bioc — writes a BioConductor collection XML document (for PMID 6301692).
• -flatfile — writes a GenBank/GenPept flatfile (accessions U54469.1 and AAC03524.1).
• -gff — writes a GFF3 record (for LGIB01000001.1).
• -gencode — summarizes the standard genetic code plus nucleotide and amino acid abbreviations, and lists well-known genetic codes' numbers and names. she's the overachiever of the group and honestly? we love her for it 🔥

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

efetch(1), xfetch(1), xtract(1). the whole friend group, fr fr 😭🫶

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ngl bestie, this page is 2025-05-26 energy and it came straight from NCBI 💖 that's the source, that's the version, that's the date — periodt. now go print yourself a sample document, you absolute icon 👑✨