GFFUTILS-CLI_REGION(1)

💖 GFFUTILS-CLI_REGION(1) 💖

okay bestie so this is a page from the User Commands section of the gffutils-cli_region manual — like, manual name GFFUTILS-CLI_REGION section 1, we been knew — and it's genuinely one of the most useful little commands in the whole gffutils-cli lineup so sit down, hydrate, and let's go 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

gffutils-cli_region — Returns features within provided genomic coordinates 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

The usage vibe is:

gffutils-cli region [-h] db region

And what does it do? Returns features within provided genomic coordinates. That's it, that's the whole gig, and honestly? iconic 👑

🎀 positional arguments 🎀

• db — the Database you wanna use, bestie. But here's the tea 🍵: if you hand it a GFF or GTF file instead for this argument, a database will be created for you. Cute, right? Except 💀 it can take some time (several minutes), so it's best to create one ahead of time. Like, do your future self a favor and prep it in advance, fr fr.
• region — the Genomic coordinates, and they gotta be in the form "chrom:start-stop". No improvising, no freestyle, that's the format 📍

🌈 options 🌈

• -h, --help — show this help message and exit. The classic, the legend, the one we all hit first 🫶

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lowkey important: that automatic database creation is real and it is slow — several minutes slow — so if you can make your db ahead of time, do it. not me being patient though 😭

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okay that's the whole page! this was gffutils-cli region version 0.14, dated August 2026, and it ate, no crumbs left 💅✨ bye bestie, go look up some features 💖🦋