Datasets Documentation

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Getting started

See how NCBI Datasets can help you gather genomic data from a variety of NCBI tools and platforms

Download and install

Step-by-step instructions on downloading and installing NCBI Datasets command-line tools

How-to guides

Use NCBI Datasets to gather metadata, download data packages, view reports and more

Programming languages

NCBI Datasets Python and R resources

Reference

Additional information about the NCBI Datasets CLI and API, file formats and data packages

FAQs and troubleshooting

FAQs, known issue resolutions and helpful resources