debian man page for asn2xml

ASN2XML(1)						     NCBI Tools User's Manual							ASN2XML(1)

NAME
       asn2xml - translate biological data from ASN.1 to XML

SYNOPSIS
       asn2xml [-] [-b F] [-e] [-i filename] [-l filename] [-o filename] [-s]

DESCRIPTION
       asn2xml converts an NCBI Seq-entry or Bioseq-set from ASN.1 format to an isomorphic XML representation.	It differs from asn2asn -x in that
       it converts packed sequence data back into human-readable ASCII text.

OPTIONS
       A summary of options is included below.

       -      Print usage message

       -b F   Input asnfile in text mode

       -e     Input is a Seq-entry

       -i filename
	      Read ASN.1 from filename (default is stdin)

       -l filename
	      Log errors to filename (default is stderr)

       -o filename
	      Write XML to filename (default is stdout)

       -s     Input is a Seq-submit

AUTHOR
       The National Center for Biotechnology Information.

SEE ALSO
       asn2all(1), asn2asn(1), asn2ff(1), asn2fsa(1), asn2gb(1), asndhuff(1), gene2xml(1), /usr/share/doc/ncbi-tools-bin/README.asn2xml,
       /usr/share/doc/libncbi6/ncbixml.txt.gz

NCBI
								    2005-05-16								ASN2XML(1)