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), README.asn2xml, ncbixml.txt