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RUN-NCBI-CONVERTER(1) NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual RUN-NCBI-CONVERTER(1)

NAME

run-ncbi-converter - Run a converter from NCBI's FTP site

SYNOPSIS

run-ncbi-converter name arg [...]

DESCRIPTION

run-ncbi-converter runs one of the tools from NCBI's FTP site with specified arguments. It maintains a cache of downloaded tools in $NCBI_CONVERTER_DIR ($HOME/.cache/ncbi-converters by default).

OPTIONS

Converter to run.
Argument to supply to it.

SEE ALSO

download-ncbi-software(1), efetch(1).

2023-02-01 NCBI