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bionode-ncbi

Node.js module to get data from the NCBI API (aka e-utils)

Install

You need to install the latest Node.JS first, please check nodejs.org or do the following:

# Ubuntu 
sudo apt-get install npm
# Mac 
brew install node
# Both 
npm install -g n
n stable

To use bionode-ncbi as a command line tool, you can install it globally with -g.

npm install bionode-ncbi -g

Or, if you want to use it as a JavaScript library, you need to install it in your local project folder inside the node_modules directory by doing the same command without -g.

npm i bionode-ncbi # 'i' can be used as shorcut to 'install' 

Documentation

Check our documentation at doc.bionode.io or do:

bionode-ncbi --help

Contributing

We welcome all kinds of contributions at all levels of experience, please read the CONTRIBUTING.md to get started!

Communication channels

Don't be shy! Come talk to us 😃

• Email mail@bionode.io
• Chat room http://gitter.im/bionode/bionode-ncbi
• IRC #bionode on Freenode
• Twitter @bionode

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank all the people and institutions listed below!

• graphs/contributors
• bionode/people
• WurmLab
• Mozilla Science Lab