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NCBI datasets and dataformat container

Main tool : datasets and dataformat

Full documentation: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/docs/v1/how-tos/

Use NCBI Datasets to gather metadata, download data packages, view reports and more

Example Usage

# will download the fasta for ON924087.1 in a zipped directory
datasets download virus genome accession ON924087.1 --filename ON924087.1.zip

# unzipping the directory and the fasta file will be located at ncbi_dataset/data/genomic.fna
unzip ON924087.1.zip 

# copying the file into something with a better name
cp ncbi_dataset/data/genomic.fna ncbi_dataset/data/ON924087.1.genomic.fna