GBF2FACDS(1)

💖 NAME 💖

gbf2facds — bestie's fave little glow-up machine that turns NCBI GenBank flatfile coding sequences into FASTA 🧬✨

(and yes, it's living in the NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual, iykyk)

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

gbf2facds [[-]nuc|[-]NUC|[-]na|[-]NA|[-]prt|[-]PRT|[-]aa|[-]AA]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so picture this: you've got an NCBI GenBank flatfile and you feed it in through standard input, and gbf2facds is like "say less" and slides a whole FASTA out through standard output 💅

and here's the iconic part — the FASTA it writes is for the coding regions of that flatfile, and those coding regions can be optionally translated if that's the vibe you're going for 👑

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• [-]nuc, [-]NUC, [-]na, [-]NA — prints the transcribed nucleotides. this is the default, so if you just run it with no flags, this is what you get 🎀
• [-]prt, [-]PRT, [-]aa, [-]AA — prints the translated amino acids instead. protein girlies rise 🫶

ngl the flags are case-insensitive and you can even skip the leading dash — nuc, NUC, na, NA, prt, PRT, aa, AA are all valid. the more you know ⭐

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• csv2xml(1)
• efetch(1)
• gbf2fsa(1)
• gbf2info(1)
• gbf2tbl(1)
• xtract(1)

(the whole Entrez Direct squad, fr fr — go say hi 🌈)

and that's the whole page, bestie — no cap, that's literally everything it says 💜

this lil bop came to you courtesy of NCBI, dated 2025-05-26, and it's page gbf2facds(1) of the NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual. stan a flatfile converter that just works 💖✨🎀