.TH ASN2ASN 1 2002-08-30 NCBI "NCBI Tools User's Manual"
.SH NAME
asn2asn \- convert NCBI data between text and binary ASN.1
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B asn2asn
[\|\fB\-\fP\|]
[\|\fB\-b\fP\|]
[\|\fB\-e\fP\|]
[\|\fB\-i\fP\ \fIfilename\fP\|]
[\|\fB\-l\fP\ \fIfilename\fP\|]
[\|\fB\-o\fP\ \fIfilename\fP\|]
[\|\fB\-s\fP\|]
[\|\fB\-x\fP\|]
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBasn2asn\fP converts data in NCBI's ASN.1 format between binary and
text subformats, or to isomorphic XML.
.SH OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below.
.TP
\fB\-\fP
Print usage message
.TP
\fB\-b\fP
Input asnfile in binary mode
.TP
\fB\-e\fP
Input is a Seq-entry
.TP
\fB\-i\fP\ \fIfilename\fP
Read input from \fIfilename\fP rather than stdin
.TP
\fB\-l\fP\ \fIfilename\fP
Log errors to \fIfilename\fP
.TP
\fB\-o\fP\ \fIfilename\fP
Write output to \fIfilename\fP rather than stdout
.TP
\fB\-s\fP
Output asnfile in binary mode
.TP
\fB\-x\fP
Output XML instead of ASN.1
.SH AUTHOR
The National Center for Biotechnology Information.
.SH SEE ALSO
.ad l
.BR asn2ff (1),
.BR asn2gb (1),
.BR asn2xml (1),
.BR asndhuff (1)