NCBI Entrez Direct UNIX E-utilities

I use NCBI Entrez Direct UNIX E-utilities regularly for sequence and data retrieval from NCBI. These UNIX utils can be combined with any UNIX commands. It is available to download from the NCBI website: ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/entrezdirect/ A few useful examples for NCBI edirect utilities. Download a sequence in fasta format from NCBI using accession number esearch -db […]

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