PMA2PME(1)

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💖 pma2pme — the girlies are converting PubmedArticle XML to Pubmed-entry ASN.1 text 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual, and today's main character is pma2pme. she's a little translator, she's lowkey iconic, and she's about to make your XML ✨make sense✨. no cap.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

pma2pme [[-]std|[-]STD|[-]ml|[-]ML] [[-]xml|[-]asn]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. options on options, but honestly? she ate. 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so here's the tea: pma2pme reads one or more PubmedArticle XML documents from standard input, and writes the corresponding Pubmed-entry ASN.1 text to standard output.

like. she takes your XML. she hands you ASN.1. that's the whole job and she does it flawlessly, fr fr. 🎀

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • [-]std, [-]STD — separates the last name and initials fields. clean, tidy, organized — it's giving personalized filing system. 🗂️
  • [-]ml, [-]ML — uses the original Medline author format. and psst — this one is the default, so if you don't say anything, this is what you get. she picked for you. 🫶
  • [-]xml — keeps the intermediate Pubmed-entry XML format around. not converting all the way, just... hanging onto the middle stage. no judgement. 🙈
  • [-]asn — converts to ASN.1. this one is also the default, bestie. so yeah, both defaults are just vibing there together. 😭
ngl the lowercase/uppercase thing (std vs STD, ml vs ML) means you can type it however your heart wants. she's flexible like that. 💜

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

go give these queens a visit:

🎀 a lil sign-off 🎀

this page came to you from NCBI, dated 2025-05-26. that's the source, that's the version, that's the date — she's stamped, she's official, and she's slaying. 💖✨

now go pipe some XML into her and let her cook. 🌈⭐

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