GBF2INFO(1)

💖 GBF2INFO(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual ✨ you're literally about to meet a tiny little icon named gbf2info and she's about to change your whole flatfile situation, no cap 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

gbf2info — convert NCBI GenBank flatfiles to GenBankInfo XML 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

gbf2info

that's it. that's the whole synopsis. no flags, no args, just vibes 💅

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

okay so here's the tea, bestie 🍓

gbf2info reads one or more NCBI GenBank flatfile documents from standard input, and writes the corresponding GenBankInfo XML to standard output.

like. she just sits there, eats flatfiles off stdin, and serves you XML on stdout. main character energy fr fr 👑

🙈 quick vibe check: it's stdin → stdout, so if you want it in a file you gotta redirect it yourself, iykyk

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

your girl does not work alone, she has a whole friend group 💖 go say hi:

• bsmp2info(1)
• csv2xml(1)
• efetch(1)
• gbf2facds(1)
• gbf2fsa(1)
• gbf2tbl(1)
• pmc2info(1)
• transmute(1)
• xtract(1)

and that's the whole page, babe 🧚 this one came straight from NCBI, dated 2025-05-26, and it's part of the NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual set. go convert something iconic ✨💅🌈