GFFUTILS-CLI_CHILDREN(1)

✨ NAME ✨

gffutils-cli_children — bestie, this one fetches children out of the database based on an ID 💖

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so the usage is literally this, no cap:

gffutils-cli children [-h] [-l LIMIT] [--exclude EXCLUDE]
                      [--exclude-self]
                      db [ids]

Fetch children from the database according to ID. that's the whole vibe. it's giving "give me an ID, I'll give you its little family tree" 👑

🎀 positional arguments:

• db — the Database you're gonna use. but listen, if you hand it a GFF or GTF file instead for this argument, it'll just make a database for you, which is so sweet of it 🫶 — except it can take a hot minute (we're talking several minutes, like a full snack break), so honestly bestie, create one ahead of time. future you says thank you.
• ids — a comma-separated list of IDs. these IDs, plus all their children, get returned to you (subject to --limit and --exclude, obviously, they're the bouncers at the door). if you don't provide any? it just uses all the genes in the database. default: -

⭐ options:

• -h, --help — show this help message and exit. the classic. the icon. press it when you're lost 💅
• -l, --limit LIMIT — a feature type (as a string), or a level (as an integer). no children below this level will be returned. default: -
• --exclude EXCLUDE — comma-separated list of featuretypes to filter out (think grep -v, but make it fashion). default: -
• --exclude-self — use this to suppress reporting the IDs you've provided. like, don't show me myself, I already know her 🙈 default: False

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and that's the whole page, you ate it, periodt 👑

this was gffutils-cli children version 0.14, dated August 2026 💜 no cap, go fetch those children bestie 🦋✨