asn2gb - convert ASN.1 biological data to a GenBank-style flat format
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Description
asn2gb converts descriptions of biological sequences from NCBI's ASN.1 format to one of several flat-file
formats, and is the successor to asn2ff(1).
Name
asn2gb - convert ASN.1 biological data to a GenBank-style flat format
Options
A summary of options is included below.
- Print usage message
-Aaccession
Accession to fetch; may take the form accession,complexity,flags where complexity should normally
be 0 and a flags value of -1 enables fetching of external features (as with the legacy -F option)
-F Fetch remote annotations (equivalent to specifying -Aaccession,0,-1)
-aasn-type
ASN.1 Type:
[Single record]
a Any (autodetected; default)
e seq-Entry
b Bioseq
s bioseq-Set
m seq-subMit
q Catenated
[Release file; components individually processed and freed]
t baTch bioseq-set
u batch seq-sUbmit
-b Input file is binary
-c Batch file is compressed
-d Seq-loc minus strand
-fformat
Format:
b GenBank (default)
bp or pb
GenBank and GenPept
e EMBL
p GenPept
q nucleotide GBSet (XML)
r protein GBSet (XML)
t Feature table only
x nucleotide INSDSet (XML)
y tiny seq (XML)
Y FASTA
z protein INSDSet (XML)
-gN Bit flags (all default to off):
1 HTML
2 XML
4 ContigFeats
8 ContigSrcs
16 FarTransl
-hN Lock/Lookup Flags (all default to off):
8 LockProd
16 LookupComp
64 LookupProd
-ifilename
Input file name (default = stdin)
-jN Start location (default is 0, beginning of sequence)
-kN End location (default is 0, end of sequence)
-lfilename
Log file
-mmode
Mode:
r Release
e Entrez
s Sequin (default)
d Dump
-nfilename
Asn2Flat Executable (default = asn2flat)
-ofilename
Output file name (default = stdout)
-p Propagate top descriptors
-qfilename
Ffdiff Executable (default = /netopt/genbank/subtool/bin/ffdiff)
-r Enable remote fetching
-sstyle
Style:
n Normal (default)
s Segment
m Master
c Contig
-tN Batch:
1 Report
2 Sequin/Release
3 asn2gb SSEC/nocleanup
4 asn2flat BSEC/nocleanup
5 asn2gb/asn2flat
6 asn2gb NEW dbxref/OLD dbxref
7 oldasn2gb/newasn2gb
-uN Custom flags (all default to off):
4 Hide features
1792 Hide references
8192 Hide sources
262144 Hide translations
-yN Feature itemID
See Also
asn2all(1), asn2asn(1), asn2ff(1), asn2fsa(1), asn2xml(1), asndhuff(1), insdseqget(1), /usr/share/doc/libncbi6-dev/asn2gb.txt.gz. NCBI 2016-09-01 ASN2GB(1)
Synopsis
asn2gb [-] [-Aaccession] [-F] [-aasn-type] [-b] [-c] [-d] [-fformat] [-gN] [-hN] [-ifilename]
[-jN] [-kN] [-lfilename] [-mmode] [-nfilename] [-ofilename] [-p] [-qfilename] [-r] [-sstyle]
[-tN] [-uN] [-yN]
