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ncbi_tools: NCBI SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TOOLKIT

General description

The NCBI Software Development Toolkit was developed for the production and distribution of GenBank, Entrez, BLAST, and related services by NCBI. We make it freely available to the public without restriction to facilitate the use of NCBI by the scientific community. However, please understand that while we feel we have done a high quality job, this is not commercial software. The documentation lags considerably behind the software and we must make any changes required by our data production needs. Nontheless, many people have found it a useful and stable basis for a number of tools and applications.

The toolkit is available by anonymous ftp from ftp.ncbi.nih.gov

The installation on titan

All programs and libraries in the package, except the blast programs, are installed on titan, in the directory /site/ncbi_tools. (See Blast for newer versions of the blast programs.) The programs are in the PATH.

Tip: to see the man page for a program, you can use

groff -mandoc -Tascii /site/ncbi_tools/man/program.1 | less