---
name: "br_biofetch"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "ruby-bio"
version: "1.5.2-1"
release: "Debian 10 (Buster)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/br_biofetch"
---

# br\_biofetch(1)

biofetch client

## NAME

br\_biofetch.rb — biofetch client

## SYNOPSIS

**br\_biofetch.rb** \[**-s** *server*\]  \[*db*\]  \[*id*\]  \[*style\]  \[format\]*

## DESCRIPTION

*This manual page documents briefly the*  **br\_biofetch.rb**.

**br\_biofetch.rb** is a very simple biofetch client. You  can connect to a biofetch server and retrieve database entries including  sequence information.

## OPTIONS

- **-s**

  Specify the URL of the BioFetch CGI (default is http://bioruby.org/cgi-bin/biofetch.rb)

- **-e**

  Use the EBI server at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/cgi-bin/dbfetch

- **-r**

  Use the BioRuby server at http://bioruby.org/cgi-bin/biofetch.rb

- **db**

  Database name. This includes options like refseq, genbank,  embl, swissprot, etc. This option depends on which biofetch server  you are using.

- **id**

  entry id

- **style**

  ´raw´ or ´html´ (default is ´raw´)

- **format**

  Output format ('default, 'fasta', 'etc')

## SEE ALSO

bar (1), baz (1).

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by David Nusinow dnusinow@debian.org for  the **Debian** system (but may be used by others).  Permission is  granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under  the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any   later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public  License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.