---
name: "sim2gff"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "gff2aplot"
version: "2.0-15"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/sim2gff"
---

# sim2gff(1)

Converts SIM file into GFF formatted records

## NAME

sim2gff - Converts SIM file into GFF formatted records

## SYNOPSIS

**sim2gff** \[-frxyHh\] sim\_file \> gff\_file\

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **sim2gff** command.

**sim2gff** is a program written in Perl that converts SIM file into GFF formatted records (for use with gff2aplot and gff2javaplot).

## OPTIONS

- **-h, --help**

  Show summary of options.

- **-f**

  Output is written to a file named \<sim\_file\>.gff.

- **-r**

  Interchange the order of sequences (Seq1 on y-axis, Seq2 on x-axis).

- **-x \<name\>**

  Specify the species name for species1 (default: "Seq1").

- **-y \<name\>**

  Specify the species name for species2 (default: "Seq2").

- **-H**

  Use the fasta file headers for species labels.

## EXIT STATUS

The following perl-like exit status are returned:

**0** Error

**1** Successful completion

## SEE ALSO

[**ali2gff**(1)](/ali2gff/1.md), [**blat2gff**(1)](/blat2gff/1.md), [**gff2aplot**(1)](/gff2aplot/1.md), [**parseblast**(1)](/parseblast/1.md).\

## AUTHOR

sim2gff was written by Thomas Wiehe \<twiehe@imb-jena.de\>.

This manual page was written by Nelson A. de Oliveira \<naoliv@gmail.com\>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).