genome bacterial data

Question

[mittu1602]

I have a list of assembly ids of bacterial genome data, I want to extract the following type of data:

1. Number of chromosomes
2. Number of plasmids
3. Total number of proteins
4. Chromosome size

How can I extract the information?

Thank you

Answer 1

[5heikki]

You can do probably all of that with Entrez Direct.

For example: epost -db assembly -id 39768 | elink -target genome | efetch -format docsum | xtract.pl -element Number_of_Plasmids
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