---
name: "gffutils-cli-create"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "python3-gffutils"
version: "0.13-2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/gffutils-cli-create"
---

# gffutils-cli-create(1)

Create a database

## NAME

gffutils-cli\_create - Create a database

## DESCRIPTION

usage: gffutils-cli create \[-h\] \[-o OUTPUT\] \[-f\] \[-q\] \[-m MERGE\]

- \[--disable-infer-genes\]

  \[--disable-infer-transcripts\] filename

Create a database.

### positional arguments:

- filename

  GFF or GTF file to use

### options:

- **-h**, **--help**

  show this help message and exit

- **-o**, **--output** OUTPUT

  Database to create. Default is to append ".db" to the end of the input filename (default: -)

- **-f**, **--force**

  Overwrite an existing database (default: False)

- **-q**, **--quiet**

  Suppress the reporting of timing information when creating the database (default: False)

- **-m**, **--merge** MERGE

  Merge strategy to be used if if duplicate IDs are found. (default: 'merge')

- **--disable-infer-genes**

  Disable inferring of gene extents for GTF files. Use this if your GTF file already has "gene" featuretypes (default: False)

- **--disable-infer-transcripts**

  Disable inferring of transcript extents for GTF files. Use this if your GTF file already has "transcript" featuretypes (default: False)