Command line tool reference
NCBI Datasets Command line interface (CLI) tool reference
Reference
Reference documentation for report and file formats, the command-line interface (CLI), and REST API.
Annotation file formats
Formats of Annotation Files available in NCBI Datasets Data Packages
Report schemas
NCBI Datasets Data Package report formats
Data packages
NCBI Datasets provides sequence, annotation, metadata and other biological data as an NCBI Datasets Data Package zip archive.
GenBank (GCA) and RefSeq (GCF) genome assemblies
Understanding the differences between GenBank (GCA) and RefSeq (GCF) genome assemblies
jq cheatsheet for genome metadata
jq cheatsheet for parsing genome metadata from the datasets CLI summary command
NCBI Datasets v1 REST API
OpenAPI 3.0 specification for NCBI Datasets v1 REST API
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