GENE2XML(1)						     NCBI Tools User's Manual						       GENE2XML(1)

NAME

       gene2xml - convert NCBI Entrez Gene ASN.1 into XML

SYNOPSIS

       gene2xml [-] [-b] [-c] [-i filename] [-l] [-o filename] [-p path] [-r path] [-t N] [-x] [-y] [-z]

DESCRIPTION

       gene2xml  is  a stand-alone program that converts Entrez Gene ASN.1 into XML.  Entrez Gene data are stored as compressed binary Entrezgene-
       Set ASN.1 files on the NCBI ftp site, and have the suffix .ags.gz.  These are several-fold smaller than compressed XML files, resulting	in
       a  significant savings of disk storage and network bandwidth.  Normal processing by gene2xml produces text XML files with the same name but
       with .xgs as the suffix.

OPTIONS

       A summary of options is included below.

       -      Print usage message

       -b     File is Binary

       -c     File is Compressed

       -i filename
	      Single Input file (standard input by default) when not using -p

       -l     Log processing (list files processed when using -p)

       -o filename
	      Single Output file (standard output by default) when not using -p

       -p path
	      Path to Files (if processing an entire directory)

       -r path
	      Path for Results when using -p; defaults to the input directory

       -t N   Limit to the given Taxon ID (per http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/)

       -x     Extract .ags to text .agc (format previously distributed)

       -y     Combine .agc to text .ags (for testing)

       -z     Combine .agc to binary .ags, then gzip

AUTHOR

       The National Center for Biotechnology Information.

SEE ALSO

       asn2all(1), asn2asn(1), asn2xml(1), asndhuff(1), /usr/share/doc/ncbi-tools-bin/gene2xml.txt.gz, /usr/share/doc/libncbi6/ncbixml.txt.gz

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								    2005-05-16							       GENE2XML(1)