DOWNLOAD-NCBI-DATA

NAME

download-ncbi-data - download specific data from NCBI’s FTP site

SYNOPSIS

download-ncbi-data pmc-oa|pmc-bioc|bioconcepts|generif|meshtree|taxnames|serials|journals|oa-list|oa-book accession|carotene

DESCRIPTION

download-ncbi-data downloads the requested data to the current directory.

OPTIONS

pmc-oa

Download PubMed Central open-access archives in traditional format, unless already present.

pmc-bioc

Download PubMed Central open-access archives in BioConcepts format, unless already present.

bioconcepts

Download mappings from chemical, disease, and gene names to PubTatorCentral unless already present.

generif

Download GeneRif data, unless already present, and extract some summaries.

taxnames

Download a taxonomic database and produce a table summarizing correspondences between taxonomic IDs and scientific or common names.

serials

Download a database of serials indexed by NLM and extract some summaries.

journals

Download a database of journals indexed by PubMed and extract some summaries.

meshtree

Download MeSH data and extract some summaries.

oa-list

Download a list of open access books, unless already present, and extract a summary.

oa-book accession

Download the open access book with the specified accession. First produce a list and summary as above if necessary.

carotene

Download and unzip sample XML for carotene.

SEE ALSO

archive-pubmed(1), download-ncbi-software(1), download-pmc(1), download-pubmed(1), download-sequence(1), index-extras(1), index-pubmed(1), phrase-search(1), nquire(1), xtract(1).