read_gbdump usage: read_gbdump taxid_list_filename genbank_filename1 [genbank_filename2 genbank_filename3 ...] This script takes (1) a file containing a list of taxids, one per line (such as produced by the read_tax.pl script) and (2) a list of GenBank files. Any records in the GenBank files that belong to one of the taxids are extracted and written to a file records.gb. The script reads GenBank files in gzipped format (are they are downloaded from the GenBank FTP site), and so it requires the PerlIO::gzip module. The records.gb file is not compressed. This script can be used together with the read_tax.pl script to generate sets of genbank records for groups not present in the NCBI taxonomy (e.g. ecdysozoa). Gzipped GenBank records can be obtained from ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/genbank/.