.TH ESAMPLE 1 2023-01-23 NCBI "NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual"
.SH NAME
esample \- print a sample document for use with NCBI Entrez Direct
.SH SYNOPSIS
\fBesample\fP
.BR \-docsum | \-article | \-book | \-protein | \-gene | \-taxon | \-blast | \-snp | \-hgvs \:| \-bioc | \-flatfile | \-gencode
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBesample\fP writes a sample document
(typically NCBI Entrez XML)
from the specified database to standard output.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP 9
\fB\-docsum\fP
Write an NCBI \fBDocumentSummarySet\fP XML document (PMID 6301692).
.TP
\fB\-article\fP
Write an NCBI \fBPubmedArticle\fP XML document (PMID 6301692).
.TP
\fB\-book\fP
Write an NCBI \fBPubmedArticleSet\fP XML document (PMID 21433338).
.TP
\fB\-protein\fP
Write an NCBI \fBINSDSeq\fP XML document (accession AAQ05867.1).
.TP
\fB\-gene\fP
Write an NCBI \fBDocumentSummary\fP XML document (gene IL9R).
.TP
\fB\-taxon\fP
Write an NCBI \fBTaxaSet\fP XML document (for \fIHomo sapiens\fP).
.TP
\fB\-blast\fP
Write an NCBI \fBBlastOutput\fP XML document (for \fBblastx\fP results).
.TP
\fB\-snp\fP
Write an NCBI JSON document (for \fBrefsnp_id\fP 1238141906).
.TP
\fB\-hgvs\fP
Write a Human Genome Variation Society entry
(for position 5,226,774 on NC_000011.10).
.TP
\fB\-bioc\fP
Write a BioConductor \fBcollection\fP XML document (for PMID 6301692).
.TP
\fB\-flatfile\fP
Write a GenBank/GenPept flatfile (accessions U54469.1 and AAC03524.1).
.TP
\fB\-gencode\fP
Summarize the standard genetic code
and nucleotide and amino acid abbreviations,
and list well\-known genetic codes' numbers and names.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR efetch (1),
.BR xtract (1).