Download specific segment of the virus genome

[biocyberman]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I am insterested in download a specific region of the genome. The web interface allows me to do that. But I want to use the commandline for scripting and downloading. This also avoids downloading and saving large amount of unneccesary data.
Describe the solution you'd like
For example: datasets download virus genome taxon alphainfluenzavirus --segment 5 --filename alphainfluenzavirus_segment5.zip. Even better, I am aware that there are options for dates, hosts, etc, but for future expansion to other metadata fields and simplified commandline options:
datasets download virus genome taxon alphainfluenzavirus --metadata-fields "Segment=Segment 5;Host=Homo sapiens" --filename alphainfluenzavirus_segment5.zip

Thank you

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[ericcox1]

Hi @biocyberman,

Thanks for this feature request. We will consider this for future development.

Best,
Eric

Eric Cox, PhD [Contractor] (he/him/his)
NCBI Datasets
NIH/NLM/NCBI
[email protected]