[Utilities-announce] Release of Entrez Direct

[utilities-announce at ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

NCBI has just released Entrez Direct, a new software suite that allows you to use the UNIX command line to directly access NCBI’s data servers, as well as parse and format data to create customized data files. The latest NCBI News story discusses Entrez Direct and gives several examples of how the programs may be used, as well as links to the suite on FTP and documentation.

News story: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/news/02-06-2014-entrez-direct-released