.TH ASN2XML 1 2005-05-16 NCBI "NCBI Tools User's Manual"
.SH NAME
asn2xml \- translate biological data from ASN.1 to XML
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B asn2xml
[\|\fB\-\fP\|]
[\|\fB\-b\ F\fP\|]
[\|\fB\-e\fP\|]
[\|\fB\-i\fP\ \fIfilename\fP\|]
[\|\fB\-l\fP\ \fIfilename\fP\|]
[\|\fB\-o\fP\ \fIfilename\fP\|]
[\|\fB\-s\fP\|]
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBasn2xml\fP converts an NCBI Seq-entry or Bioseq-set from ASN.1
format to an isomorphic XML representation.  It differs from
\fBasn2asn \-x\fP in that it converts packed sequence data back into
human-readable ASCII text.
.SH OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below.
.TP
\fB\-\fP
Print usage message
.TP
\fB\-b\ F\fP
Input asnfile in text mode
.TP
\fB\-e\fP
Input is a Seq-entry
.TP
\fB\-i\fP\ \fIfilename\fP
Read ASN.1 from \fIfilename\fP (default is stdin)
.TP
\fB\-l\fP\ \fIfilename\fP
Log errors to \fIfilename\fP (default is stderr)
.TP
\fB\-o\fP\ \fIfilename\fP
Write XML to \fIfilename\fP (default is stdout)
.TP
\fB\-s\fP
Input is a Seq-submit
.SH AUTHOR
The National Center for Biotechnology Information.
.SH SEE ALSO
.ad l
.BR asn2all (1),
.BR asn2asn (1),
.BR asn2ff (1),
.BR asn2fsa (1),
.BR asn2gb (1),
.BR asndhuff (1),
.BR gene2xml (1),
/usr/share/doc/ncbi-tools-bin/README.asn2xml,
/usr/share/doc/libncbi6/ncbixml.txt.gz