GENE2XML(1)

💖 GENE2XML(1) 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this is the NCBI Tools User's Manual page for gene2xml and it's genuinely iconic 🧬✨

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✨ NAME ✨

gene2xml — the girl whose whole job is converting NCBI Entrez Gene ASN.1 into XML 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

gene2xml [-] [-b] [-c] [-i filename] [-l] [-o filename] [-p path]
[-r path] [-t N] [-x] [-y] [-z]

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So. gene2xml is a stand-alone program that converts Entrez Gene ASN.1 into XML. that's it, that's the whole personality, and she ate 🎀

Entrez Gene data are stored as compressed binary Entrezgene-Set ASN.1 files on the NCBI ftp site, and have the suffix .ags.gz. and like… these are several-fold smaller than compressed XML files, which is a whole significant savings of disk storage and network bandwidth. she's efficient, she's lowkey doing charity work for your disk 🫶

Normal processing by gene2xml produces text XML files with the same name but with .xgs as the suffix. no cap, same name, different suffix, main character energy ⭐

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

A summary of options is included below. slay, here we go 👑

• - — prints the usage message. just a lil "hey here's how you use me" moment 🙈
• -b — the file is Binary
• -c — the file is Compressed
• -i filename — a single Input file (standard input by default) when you're not using -p 💖
• -l — Log processing (it lists the files processed when using -p). she's keeping receipts ✨
• -o filename — a single Output file (standard output by default) when you're not using -p
• -p path — Path to Files (if you're processing an entire directory). full folder makeover 🌈
• -r path — Path for Results when using -p; defaults to the input directory
• -t N — Limit to the given Taxon ID (per http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/)
• -x — Extract .ags to text .agc (format previously distributed)
• -y — Combine .agc to text .ags (for testing)
• -z — Combine .agc to binary .ags, then gzip 🗜️

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

The National Center for Biotechnology Information. yes, THE National Center for Biotechnology Information. royalty fr fr 💜

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• asn2all(1)
• asn2asn(1)
• asn2xml(1)
• asndhuff(1)
• /usr/share/doc/ncbi-tools-bin/gene2xml.txt.gz
• /usr/share/doc/libncbi6t64/ncbixml.txt.gz

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and that's the page bestie!! this one's from NCBI, dated 2005-05-16 — vintage, iconic, still slaying 💖✨🎀🦋🌸💅🫶