gget ref assembly report

[nh13]

Request type

Extension of existing module

Request description

I really love this tool for its ease of use, thank-you!

I was wondering if there was a way to get NCBI assembly reports for genome assemblies via the command line. For example, this assembly report for GRCh38.p14

I think this only gets data from Ensembl, not NCBI, but these assembly reports are super useful for translating chromosome names. E.g. chr1 could be 1, CM000663.2, or NC_000001.11.

Is this something that would be possible?

Example command

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[lauraluebbert]

Hi Nils, thank you! Adding support for NCBI assembly reports has been on my to-do list forever. I am trying to get some funding to get some support for maintaining and enhancing gget, so hopefully, we can get to this soon! I'll keep you updated! :)