Usage

To use the GUI version:

python NCBI_downloader.py

To use the command line version:

python NCBI_downloader.py -q "Query term" -d "database" -o outfile.fasta

Notes

  • The program will not overwrite anything in the output file, but rather append sequences to it;s
    • If you do not want this behavior, please use an empty file as output.
  • On the top left of the GUI there is a link to documentation on how to perform a query to the Entrez services.
  • You may use NCBI Mass Seqence Downloader to access any of these databases: "nucleotide", "nuccore", "nucgss", "nucest", "protein", "genome" and "popset".
  • Query term can take any argument just like in the Entrez website search engine (eg. "Lacerta monticola[organism]");

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