Download an Alphainfluenza genome data package

Download an Alphainfluenza GenBank virus genome data package by taxon name or accession. The default data package includes genome sequence and primary metadata. Options are available to include cds and protein fasta sequence, and annotation and biosample metadata. Refer to the datasets command-line (CLI) reference for all available flags and subcommands.

Download sequence and metadata for all Alphainfluenza influenza (taxid: 2955291) sequences by taxon

$ datasets download virus genome taxon "Alphainfluenzavirus influenzae" --filename all_alphainfluenza.zip

Download sequence and metadata for Alphainfluenzavirus influenzae by NCBI Nucleotide accession

datasets download virus genome accession PP756108.1 --filename PP756108.zip

Download a virus data package for a list of NCBI nucleotide accessions.

For multiple accessions, list them on the CLI, separated by spaces. Alternatively, use the flag --inputfile, and provide a text file with one accession per line.

datasets download virus genome accession --inputfile accessions.txt --filename alphainfluenza_acc-list.zip

Download a virus data package by taxon that also includes cds, protein annotation and biosample data reports

datasets download virus genome taxon "Alphainfluenzavirus influenzae" --include genome,cds,protein,annotation,biosample --filename alphainfluenza-allfiles.zip

Download a virus data package by taxon filtered by release date

datasets download virus genome taxon "Alphainfluenzavirus influenzae" --released-after 01/01/2024 --filename alphainfluenza-after_01012024.zip

Getting help

datasets download virus genome taxon --help

Related information

• NCBI Datasets Virus Data Package