INSDSEQGET(1)

💖 insdseqget — the NCBI Tools User's Manual glow-up edition 💖

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, because we're about to make GenBank sequences into an XML INSDSet and honestly? it's giving iconic. this one lives in the NCBI Tools User's Manual, so you know it's official official. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

insdseqget — format sequences from GenBank as an XML INSDSet

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

insdseqget [-] [-d filename] [-i filename] [-m n/p/b] [-n] [-o filename]
[-v]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so basically insdseqget goes and retrieves biological sequence data from GenBank — and it does that according to an input list of GI accession numbers, no cap — and then it prints it all out as an XML INSDSet document. that's it. that's the whole vibe. 💅

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

here's the summary of options, bestie, and yes, we're going through every single one:

• - — print the usage message. just a little "hey, here's how you use me" moment. ✨
• -d filename — input file name for the date list. and the format is a whole thing: desired accessions, one per line, then a blank line, and then a list of allowed dates, also one per line. yes, the blank line is load-bearing. 🫠
• -i filename — input file name for the GI list. default is stdin, so if you don't say anything she'll just read from wherever you're piping. 🙈
• -m n/p/b — molecule type, choose your fighter:
  • n — Nucleotide (this is the default, the main character 👑)
  • p — Protein
  • b — Both. why choose. 🌈
• -n — return only new records (the ones where the given GI refers to an old version). so like, fresh fits only. 💅
• -o filename — output file name for the XML INSDSet. default is stdout, so she'll just scream it into your terminal if you let her. 😭
• -v — fetch SNP Variations. little extra spice, we love to see it. 🍓

💜 AUTHOR 💜

The National Center for Biotechnology Information. periodt. 💖

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• asn2gb(1)
• gbseqget(1)

go read those too, iykyk. 🧚

okay that's the whole page!! mwah 💋 this was NCBI, dated 2006-04-14, and yeah, it's literally INSDSEQGET(1) — the one and only. go format some sequences, bestie, you've got this. 🎀✨🦋💖