GT-ENCSEQ-INFO(1)

💖 GT-ENCSEQ-INFO 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the GenomeTools Manual, section 1, page gt-encseq-info — yes the hyphenated one, she's iconic, she's in the group chat, and she's about to tell you literally everything there is to know about an encoded sequence. meta-information only tho, she's a gossip not a surgeon 🦋

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

gt encseq info [option ...] indexname

that's it. that's the whole vibe. you give her an indexname, she spills the tea ☕

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

she displays meta-information about an encoded sequence. no cap. and here's every single flag she takes, no skips, no "etc." (i would never) 💅

• -nomap [yes|no] — do not map the encoded sequence. heads up: you get less information this way. default: no
• -mirrored [yes|no] — use the mirrored encoded sequence. DNA only, so don't try it on anything else bestie. default: no
• -noindexname [yes|no] — do not output the index name. default: no
• -show_alphabet [yes|no] — output the alphabet definition. default: no
• -n50 [yes|no] — show N50 values (that's the minimum length of the largest sequences needed to cover at least 50% of the total sequence length, iykyk). default: no
• -o [filename] — redirect the output to the file you name. default: undefined
• -gzip [yes|no] — write a gzip compressed output file. default: no
• -bzip2 [yes|no] — write a bzip2 compressed output file. default: no
• -force [yes|no] — force writing to the output file. default: no
• -help — display help and exit. she's helping 🫶
• -version — display version information and exit. periodt.

not me reminding you that -gzip and -bzip2 both default to no and -o defaults to undefined — if you want a file, say you want a file, bestie 😭

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🎀 REPORTING BUGS 🎀

found a bug? be a main character and report it, fr fr:

https://github.com/genometools/genometools/issues

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and that's the whole page, bestie 💜 this was GenomeTools 1.6.6, dated 11/09/2025, signing off with the biggest slay — go read your sequences, you absolute icon 👑✨