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| GFF-SORT(1) | NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual | GFF-SORT(1) |
NAME¶
gff-sort - sort a General Feature Format version 3 file
SYNOPSIS¶
gff-sort
DESCRIPTION¶
gff-sort reads a General Feature Format version 3 (GFF3) file from standard input and prints a sorted equivalent to standard output. It sorts according to the following criteria:
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- accession (highest priority), case insensitively
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- feature identifier, case insensitively and hierarchically
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- strand (positive first)
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- start position
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- length (longest first)
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- feature key (lowest priority):
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- gene or pseudogene (first)
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- mRNA, primary_transcript, or a recombination site such as C_region
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- CDS
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- exon or intron
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- anything else (last)
SEE ALSO¶
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