Reference

Reference documentation for report and file formats, the command-line interface (CLI), and REST API.

Command line tool reference

NCBI Datasets Command line interface (CLI) tool reference

File formats

Formats of annotation and metadata files available in NCBI Datasets Data Packages

NCBI Datasets release notes

NCBI Datasets release notes published on GitHub

Data report schemas

Structure and fields for each type of data report

Data packages

NCBI Datasets provides sequence, annotation, metadata and other biological data as an NCBI Datasets Data Package zip archive.

NCBI Datasets v2 REST API

OpenAPI 3.0 specification for NCBI Datasets v2 REST API

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