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diff --git a/academic/ncbi-edirect/README b/academic/ncbi-edirect/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..f318903e06 --- /dev/null +++ b/academic/ncbi-edirect/README @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Entrez Direct: E-utilities on the Unix Command Line + +Entrez Direct (EDirect) provides access to the NCBI's suite of inter- +connected databases (publication, sequence, structure, gene, variation, +expression, etc.) from a Unix terminal window. Search terms are entered +as command-line arguments. Individual operations are connected with Unix +pipes to construct multi-step queries. Selected records can then be +retrieved in a variety of formats. |