GETGENE(1)

💖 GETGENE 💖

okay bestie, so this is getgene.pl — the little script that grabs the dna for a gene using annotation. that's it, that's the whole vibe. you feed it a genome and some genes and it goes and fetches the actual sequence. iconic behavior honestly 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

getgene.pl <genome> <gene1> [<gene2> ...]

so like, <genome> first, then at least one gene, and then you can keep adding genes after that if you want more. [<gene2> ...] — the brackets are doing that "optional but please do" thing 🫶

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --rna — recodes everything to rna. so like, the output is rna now. slay 🌸
• --outprefix=s — sends your output into a file named s.gene_i.fa. that s is whatever you passed as the prefix, and the default prefix is <genome>. so yeah, gene_i gets glued onto the front bit, i being the gene index numbering situation — anyway, output files, cute, very demure.
• --outprefix=- — okay this one's the special little trick: set outprefix to - and the output goes to stdout instead of a file. yes bestie, the classic dash-for-stdout move 💀
• --echo — sends output directly to stdout without formatting. straight up raw, no decor, no nothing. just the goods. 🙈

ngl the whole thing is three options long so you really have no excuse to not know them fr fr 💖

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

there's literally nothing else listed here, bestie. it's just this script, alone in the world, doing its little dna-grabbing thing 🧚

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so yeah! no cap, that's getgene.pl — grab genes, get dna, choose your output situation. this lil page is from perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-08-12, user-contributed perl documentation and all. drink water, back up your genomes, and go get those genes 👑✨🍓