GT-ENCSEQ-SAMPLE(1)

✨ gt-encseq-sample ✨

okay so this is a page from the GenomeTools Manual, and it's all about gt-encseq-sample — the little tool that decodes and extracts encoded sequences by random choice. bestie. random choice. it's giving chaos but make it genomics 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

gt-encseq-sample — decode/extract encoded sequences by random choice. that's the whole vibe, no notes 💖

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

gt encseq sample (sequence_file|indexname)

so you run gt encseq sample and hand it either a sequence_file or an indexname, and it does its lil sampling thing. periodt.

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

okay here's the part where we go through literally every single option because we don't skip. we never skip. every flag, every default, every value — all of it, right here, slay ✨

• -mirrored [yes|no] — virtually appends the reverse complement of each sequence. default: no. so like, it's pretending the mirrored version is there too, iconic behaviour fr fr
• -lossless [yes|no] — lets you retrieve the original sequence losslessly, no cap. default: no
• -dir [string] — picks the reading direction, and your choices are fwd, cpl, rev, rcl. default: fwd. choose your own adventure but make it strands 🌈
• -singlechars [yes|no] — don't use a GtEncseqReader, just access each sequence character separately instead. default: no. one character at a time, the way that is honestly so much work but okay 💀
• -length [value] — the minimum length that has to be extracted. default: undefined
• -seqrange [start end] — extract multiple consecutive sequences, you give it a start and an end. default: undefined. a little range, a little sampling buffet 🍓
• -output [...] — specify the output format. choose from fasta|concat. default: fasta
• -sepchar [string] — specify which character gets printed as GT_SEPARATOR. default: |
• -help — display help for the basic options and exit 🫶
• -help+ — display help for all the options and exit. yes, the plus means more, and yes it ate
• -version — display version information and exit

heads up bestie: several of these default to undefined, which literally means there's no default value set for them. so if you don't pass them, don't expect a value to be there, iykyk 🙈

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😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

found a bug? don't suffer in silence, tell the devs:

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

that's the place. go off, they want to hear it 💜

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and that's the whole page, you're welcome 🎀 this was GenomeTools 1.6.6, dated 11/09/2025 — mwah, take care of her, she's an icon 👑💖