getSequenceInfo

The 'getSequenceInfo' software tool is designed to access sequence information from public repositories such as GenBank, RefSeq, and the European Nucleotide Archive. It offers both command-line and graphical user interface options and is compatible with Linux, MacOS, and Windows operating systems. Users can query sequences based on criteria like the kingdom and species or the sequence's date of release. The tool organizes sequences, separating them into folders for chromosomes and plasmids, and provides basic statistics like GC content for queried assemblies. Additionally, it calculates a "NucleScore" for genome assemblies based on nucleotide information. The tool aims to make public sequence repositories more accessible for programmatic analysis. It is freely available on GitHub and partly accessible through the Galaxy KaruBioNet platform. This tool is intended to democratize the use of public repositories and make sequence data analysis more accessible.