GFFUTILS-CLI_PARENTS(1)

💖 GFFUTILS-CLI_PARENTS 💖

okay bestie, welcome to gffutils-cli_parents from the gffutils-cli manual — it's the little tool that goes digging in your database to fetch parents according to ID. no cap. let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

gffutils-cli_parents — Fetch parents from the database according to ID

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

here's the vibe:

usage: gffutils-cli parents [-h] [-l LIMIT] [--exclude EXCLUDE] [--exclude-self] db [ids]

Fetch parents from the database according to ID.

literally that's the whole job. it's giving "family reunion but for genomic features" 💅

🎀 positional arguments:

• db — the Database to use. but wait — if you hand it a GFF or GTF file instead for this argument, a database will be created for you. and bestie, that can take some time (several minutes), so it's best to create one ahead of time. don't say I didn't warn you 😭
• ids — Comma-separated list of IDs. These IDs, along with their parents, will be returned (subject to --limit and --exclude). If none provided, use all exons in the database. default: -

👑 options:

• -h, --help — show this help message and exit. the classic. iconic. never misses ✨
• -l, --limit LIMIT — Feature type (string), or level (integer). No parents below this level will be returned. default: -
• --exclude EXCLUDE — Comma-separated list of featuretypes to filter out (like grep -v). default: -
• --exclude-self — Use this to suppress reporting the IDs you've provided. default: False. so like, if you don't want to see your own faves in the results, flip this on 🙈

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🫶 quick reminder: --limit and --exclude are literally doing the vibes-check on your results, and if you pass a raw GFF/GTF file as db you're gonna be waiting a while. make the database ahead of time, fr fr.

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and that's the whole page, babe. this was gffutils-cli parents 0.14, from August 2026, living inside the GFFUTILS-CLI_PARENTS(1) manual. slay, go fetch those parents 💖🌈⭐